[thelist] clear form code
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 10:32:25 CST 2006
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Hi Ron,
Luther, Ron wrote:
>>>We are about best practice. We are about learning.
>
>
> +1! ;-)
>
> And thus my confusion over answering a question of "I need to do this
> and the client won't allow that" with "get a bigger clue hammer and
> beat more sense into the client until she allows that - then done, QED".
>
> The hack I suggested, (and yes it is certainly a hack), would be one
> solution when the 'no default' requirement is non-negotiable. I was
> hoping for some creative alternatives. None were proposed that didn't
> violate the 'no default' requirement.
...
> That kind of creative problem solving didn't happen with this thread.
> Maybe next time.
Very early in the thread I came up with a solution, if you really must
use radio buttons: add an extra radio button for "no selection", checked
by default, and hide it with display: none. This seems to be the only
way to ensure that user agents do not check by default any of the
options you wish to present to the user.
See: http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20060320/180839.html
Thanks,
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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com
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