Radio button checked attribute doesn't work

[mdwyer]

I have this weird problem where a radio button with the 'checked' attribute does not show the button checked. Here's the code:

<td><input name=x type=radio value=0 checked>N
<input name=x type=radio value=1 >C
</td>

The output is:
( )N ( )C

when it should be:
(@)N ( )C

(loosely rendered


I included the <td> tags in case embedding the use of a table sheds some light. Also, the document is being processed by an ASP clone, called CSP, from Crystal Decisions.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[philote]

Your attribute values should be in quotes, though I don't know if this is the cause of your problem or not. I tested this code in IE 6 and Mozilla and the 'N' radio button was checked.

 

[SlowFlight]

Try this:

checked=&quot;checked&quot;

Sailor Skip

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

The code should work fine as-is.

Do you know if the ASP clone is doing any processing on your code? Can you view the final source and see if it differs at all?

Dan

 

[WartookMan]

As Dan mentions, it should work... and seems to work fine on IE6.

Netscape 4.x won't display the checkboxes if there isn't opening/closing <FORM> tags, but you seem to indicate that there is a problem with functionality rather than display.

Is the source file available to view on the web?

Pete.


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e: Pete.Raleigh(at)lclimited.co.uk

 

[mdwyer]

Thanks for the help. I've tried single and double quotes around the attribute values, checked=&quot;checked&quot;, true, 0, etc. I orignally failed to add the enclosing <form></form> tags, but resolved that too. Still no &quot;dot&quot; in the middle of the &quot;checked&quot; button. (The problem IS with display, not with functionality. I have not gotten to the point of writing code to read the values of the buttons. Actually, I don't think I've even tried clicking the buttons to see if a value will &quot;set.&quot

Monday I will strip down the code to the bare essentials and post it if it still fails.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Do you have a URL that we can see the problem at?

Dan

 

[TruthInSatire]

Is that being processed by the dynamic code? I ran into a problem with asp one time something to the effect of
<input type = &quot;radio&quot; name = &quot;myRadio&quot; value = &quot;myValue&quot;<%if rs(&quot;field&quot = &quot;myValue&quot; then response.write(&quot;Checked&quot%>>

the out put would be
<input type = &quot;radio&quot; name = &quot;myRadio&quot; value = &quot;myValue&quot;Checked>
No space between the &quot; and the C. I added a space just before the asp code and it worked fine.

http://thereptilian.com/

 

[mdwyer]

Thanks for the willingness to help. The information I did not include in my orignal post was the source of the problem: the code was included in a loop! Because the loop iterated many, many times, I did not see that the there was a checked radio button in the very last row of my table. It showed up when I converted the loop to javascript with only a few iterations. As soon as I added the loop index to the field names, the check came on where expected.

So the code actually looked more like this (in javascript):

for (i=1; i<3; i++ ) {
document.write( &quot;<tr>&quot; +
&quot;<td><input name=x type=radio value=0 checked>N
&quot; <input name=x type=radio value=1 >C
&quot;</td></tr>&quot; );
}

and the output was like this:

( )N ( )C
(@)N ( )C

My correction will look something like:

for (i=1; i<3; i++ ) {
document.write( &quot;<tr>&quot; +
&quot;<td><input name=x&quot;+i +&quot; type=radio value=0 checked>N
&quot; <input name=x&quot;+i +&quot; type=radio value=1 >C
&quot;</td></tr>&quot; );
}

for output like this:

(@)N ( )C
(@)N ( )C