[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,

- --
Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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