Re: Default selection for radio buttons

On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:25:59 -0400
David Stone <no.email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in:
<no.email-DCC828.12255912052009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I posted last week about creating an on-line questionnaire for a
research project I'm working on. I've started putting some dummy
pages together, just to flesh things out for the eventual
programming, and this has raised a question or two about the
html.

This is one of the dummy pages - notice that there are a lot
of radio input groups!

http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/~dstone/assist/page1.html

[snip]

In my particular context, the default should actually be "all
off", since to pre-select one could be considered as prompting
for an answer whereas, in fact, it is essential that the person
completing the questionnaire gives their own honest opinion.
(That is, there is a distinction between the semantic meaning of
the page content and its intended purpose!)

It appears that you are missing a column. One that should be the
default checked.

Adding a Not Applicable (NA) column and having it the default
checked would also allow a user to change their choice back to NA.

[snip]

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