Re: Dilemma with Radio Buttons

Hello Kate!

I'm not sure about this, but couldn't you have a button labelled "None", or
"No Value", or "Deselect", or whatever label would be in context with the
labels of the other buttons? And have it set as the default, with a value
of "", "0", or "Null" ,or "Nada"?

Something to consider, however, is the script that processes the form. It
might b*tch at you if it receives a null value. If the script has error
trapping, it might be ok. I guess it also sort of depends on what you are
outputting TO. Is it another HTML page that the user is served after
submitting the form? Is the data e-mailed to someone? If the data is
written to a file, then whatever mechanism uses that file will have to deal
with it, too.

I'm sure the answer(s) is/are lurking here in the list somewhere. Ladies?
Gentlemen?

Happy HTMLing...

Mike

At 08:11 PM 11/14/00 -0500, Kate Pollara wrote:
>A colleague asked me if there is a way to set the radio buttons so that you
>may deselect them without making an alternate choice.  For example, we don't
>want to have anything selected as a default, then someone goes to the item
>and selects one item.
>
>It seems that the only way to deselect it is to select another.  But we
>don't want that.  We want to CLEAR ONLY this field (since it might be a
>mistake) without clearing the entire form.  Is there any way to either:
>a) program that in  OR
>b) instruct the user how to deselect it.
>
>Your help, as always, is greatly appreciated.  I can't send the URL for the
>page since it isn't up yet.
>Kate Pollara
>
>
>

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