Actually, it *does* take a value in a manner of speaking; the checked property is evaluated as either true or false. Setting myCheckbox.checked = false will uncheck the box. Of course just removing the checked parameter before rendering the page will do the job as well... From: Andrew Clover and-babble at doxdesk.com Timothy White wrote: > if I set the HTML attribute to checked, how can I remove it? > Remember that it doesn't take a value, so setting it to false > does nothing. input.removeAttribute('checked'); -- Andrew Clover -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20050706/2c52479a/attachment.htm>