On May 26, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > This is indeed the case.
If browsers reliably submitted form fields in the same order they were listed in the HTML source, then you could double up with a hidden form field like <form method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="sign_me_up" value="0"> <input type="checkbox" name="sign_me_up"> <input type="submit" value="Go"> </form> and then receive either form.html?sign_me_up=0 or form.html?sign_me_up=0&sign_me_up=on and have the second value clobber the first, but I've heard they don't. Also, CGI.pm would treat it as a multiple select and even parsing it yourself would get confusing if any multiple selects actually were tacked on. The browser is supposed to submit a supplied checkbox 'value' if checked. So you could create a special value like 'rutabaga' or '4kj5h245kjh245' that is extremely unlikely to appear in any other input type, and process fields with this value so that the field is considered true whether the hidden field with the zero comes before or after it. <form method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="sign_me_up" value="0"> <input type="checkbox" name="sign_me_up" value="4kj5h245kjh245"> <input type="submit" value="Go"> </form> Bogart _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
