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Want to only tick one box
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trollacious
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Use radio buttons that all have the same name, just different values. Only one can be chosen from the group that way.
Lee
Lee
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trollacious
Programmer
Why? What you described is best done with radio buttons. It CAN be done with checkboxes, but isn't as nice and neat.
Lee
Lee
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name all your checkboxes the same thing then incorporate this code into your page:
As an aside, trollacious is completely right. Radio buttons inherently have this behavior. Any user that comes to your page seeing checkboxes is going to assume that they can have more than one checked at a time. Radio buttons suggest to the user that only one can be checked. It may seem a bit confusing for new users to your site to see checkboxes become unchecked when they start checking others.
-kaht
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Code:
<script language=javascript>
function emulateRadio(obj) {
checkGroup = document.forms["blahForm"].elements["chkgrp"];
for (i = 0; i < checkGroup.length; i++) {
if (checkGroup[i] != obj) {
checkGroup[i].checked = false;
}
}
}
</script>
<body>
<form name=blahForm>
<input type=checkbox name=chkgrp onclick='emulateRadio(this)'>Your Friend<br>
<input type=checkbox name=chkgrp onclick='emulateRadio(this)'>Should Learn<br>
<input type=checkbox name=chkgrp onclick='emulateRadio(this)'>To Like<br>
<input type=checkbox name=chkgrp onclick='emulateRadio(this)'>Radio Buttons<br>
</form>
</body>As an aside, trollacious is completely right. Radio buttons inherently have this behavior. Any user that comes to your page seeing checkboxes is going to assume that they can have more than one checked at a time. Radio buttons suggest to the user that only one can be checked. It may seem a bit confusing for new users to your site to see checkboxes become unchecked when they start checking others.
-kaht
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. - Homer Simpson (no, I'm not Homer)
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