[html-formfu] checkbox strangeness

Ronald J Kimball rkimball+formfu at pangeamedia.com
Mon Sep 15 15:31:33 BST 2008


Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:31:57AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>> HTML::FormFu handles this correctly.
> 
> For a single form submission, maybe, but not for setting the "checked"
> attribute correctly in displayed forms.  I just tried the form you
> suggested above, and it only displays the checkboxes correctly if
> there is no more than one checkbox selected (if more than one was
> selected, they all end up unchecked).
> 
> The code in prepare_attrs() has expressions like '$value eq $original'
> and '$default eq $original' which (unless I'm missing something else
> again :-), don't allow for the possibility of more than one checkbox
> being selected.

It works for me with HTML::FormFu::Element::Checkboxgroup.  I forgot to 
mention that detail.  :)

Ronald




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