Talk:Radio button

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Contents 1 Example HTML code 2 Requested move 2.1 Survey 2.2 Discussion 3 Deleting the "See also" section 4 Paragraph about HTML is *wrong* 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Radiobuttons.png 6 Reqphoto 7 This radio button does not operate a radio 8 Etymology

[edit] Example HTML code

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<table  border="1">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="4">Select Business Rule Definition for Agency + CBR Combination below:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><input type="radio"   checked="checked" name="pp"  value="CBR" id="pp"/>Agency + CBR  </td>
    <td colspan="2"><input type="radio" name="pp" id="pp"  value="PENDING"/>Agency + CBR PENDING  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td > Agency Code/Name  </td>
    <td> </td>
    <td>Agency Code/Name  </td>
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>CBR Number  </td>
    <td> </td>
    <td>CBR  </td>
    <td>PENDING </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>OA Number  </td>
    <td> </td>
    <td>Committed Pending Group  </td>
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
</table>

[edit] Requested move

[edit] Deleting the "See also" section

No idea what this section is about or what it is doing there. I think it could just be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.9.47.220 (talk) 13:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

Agreed, I've removed it. -- Bovineone 07:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paragraph about HTML is *wrong*

An interesting aspect of radio buttons, when used in an HTML form, is that if no button in a group is checked, then no name-value pair is passed when the form is submitted.

WRONG! W3C specs say user agents (browsers) should check the first element if none is marked checked; and that because not all user agents do that, authors should check a default element anyway.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Radiobuttons.png

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BetacommandBot 04:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reqphoto

We need a photo of a car radio, preferably an old one with physical pushbuttons. We should also get some screenshots to show what they usually look like and so readers will say "oh, those". —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 12:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Piccy would be worth a thousand words. (Ever try describing an ampersand (&) to someone well enough for them to draw it?) Myles325a (talk) 00:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This radio button does not operate a radio

Techies forget that a lot of people who use Wikipedia aren't. What with internet radio these days, would you blame some Serbian grandmother in Wisconsin for thinking that this is how she might once again hum to the sweet folk songs of her youth? Alas, this 'radio button' will not take her back to the green fields of home. So I have added a sentence close to start of article to disenchant anyone with similar misconceptions. I DO wish editors, especially techies, would adopt my dictum of writing as if that Serbian grandmother in Wisconsin was representative of their audience. Myles325a (talk) 00:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

Any idea where the name "radio button" comes from? --24.82.156.18 (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This seems to be included now. Earthlyreason (talk) 10:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)