Re: [elm-discuss] Re: Text box value displays inconsistently

Thanks Kasey, I've run into that checkbox rendering issue in the past, when I've needed some boxes to initialize as "checked". It does take a couple extra steps to get it working. Cheers! On 27 June 2017 at 09:34, Kasey Speakman wrote: > In addition to the other answers,

[elm-discuss] Re: Text box value displays inconsistently

Thanks for taking a look! The true/false code you show is correct - That's the output I'm looking for. But somewhere in there the value "foo" is getting dropped. Also, the input type should never change. 'on' should always be a checkbox, 'foo' should always be text, and 'bar' should always be

[elm-discuss] Re: Text box value displays inconsistently

In addition to the other answers, I also spotted one other "gotcha" in your example you may want to be aware of. Your checkbox does not render the "checked" attribute. Your browser tracks values for HTML form elements separately from Elm. Form values typically get overwritten with Elm values

[elm-discuss] Re: Text box value displays inconsistently

Correct, this is the virtualdom reusing dom-nodes. You may want to use `Html.Keyed` to help the dom-diffing algorithm out by assigning unique keys to children that shouldn't be "mixed and matched". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss"

[elm-discuss] Re: Text box value displays inconsistently

If you replace the else branch with [ p [] [] ] this problem does not seem to happen. I guess, the reason could be the following: In your version, if model.on is True, we get in total [ p [] [ text "On: ", input [ type_ "checkbox", onClick Toggle ] [] ] , p [] [ text "Foo: ", input [ value