Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

[Steve Gibbings]

I have a problem with that.   Radio button sets should always have an option 
selected, there is no undefined selection.  This makes sense when you remember 
where the radio button metaphor came from. However seems that doesn't get 
universally implemented.



On 7 Jun 2010, at 02:25, Ben Buchanan wrote:

> 
> 
> On 4 June 2010 12:29, nedlud  wrote:
> I have a web form I'm building and there is a simple yes/no question in it.
> I got to wondering what the best semantic  mark up for this is? Does anyone 
> have any good UI/UX suggestions?
> 
> My three ideas were...
> 
> Two radio buttons for "yes" and "no"...
> Do you...?
> Yes
> No
> 
> I go back to the fact radio buttons show mutually-exclusive options, which 
> makes a very clear yes/no. If your question needs the user to actively 
> specify a yes or no, it's a good solution. Checkboxes mean one response is 
> given by omission, which is a less definitive interaction.
> 
> Since radio buttons are one element short on their own, you need to wrap them 
> in a fieldset and legend to essentially act like a label for the set of radio 
> buttons. I also think the button should be on the left and the text on the 
> right (in left-to-right languages), since a) that just seems the most common 
> thing, and b) if you were to add a couple of divs to create rows, the buttons 
> would line up neatly above each other. 
> 
> Which gives us...
> 
> Do you...?
> Yes
> No
> 
> 
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
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Re: [WSG] Yes/No structure?

[Ben Buchanan]

On 4 June 2010 12:29, nedlud  wrote:

> I have a web form I'm building and there is a simple yes/no question in it.
> I got to wondering what the best semantic  mark up for this is? Does anyone
> have any good UI/UX suggestions?
>
> My three ideas were...
>
> Two radio buttons for "yes" and "no"...
> Do you...?
> Yes id="ans-yes">
> No
>

I go back to the fact radio buttons show mutually-exclusive options, which
makes a very clear yes/no. If your question needs the user to actively
specify a yes or no, it's a good solution. Checkboxes mean one response is
given by omission, which is a less definitive interaction.

Since radio buttons are one element short on their own, you need to wrap
them in a fieldset and legend to essentially act like a label for the set of
radio buttons. I also think the button should be on the left and the text on
the right (in left-to-right languages), since a) that just seems the most
common thing, and b) if you were to add a couple of divs to create rows, the
buttons would line up neatly above each other.

Which gives us...

Do you...?
Yes
No



Hope that helps...

cheers,

Ben


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