[html-formfu] checkbox strangeness

Geoffrey D. Bennett g at netcraft.com.au
Wed Sep 17 13:54:15 BST 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:31:33AM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 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).
[...]
> It works for me with HTML::FormFu::Element::Checkboxgroup.  I forgot to 
> mention that detail.  :)

Riiight :-).  Does that mean we're back where we started -- that
single checkboxes are booleans?  And if you want multiple checkboxes
with the same name then you should be using Checkboxgroup?

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