HTML FORMS experts needed (wimps need not apply)

[IaPuP]

I'm trying to input a series of INPUT CHECKBOXES as a single item.

I've seen it done on other pages.

For this example, there are 6 checkboxes.

I have seen the browser submit these as a single variable.

For example, I check the first 4 and then leave the last 2 unchecked, the HTTP GET variable is set like this:

?checkbox=111100

If the first and last checkboxes are checked and the remainder are not you get

?checkbox=100001

I know it's possible. I've seen it done on several different browsers without any scripting- I dug through the HTML 3.2 and 4.0 specs for an hour today and couldn't find anything

I want to be able to submit a form via HTTP GET that can handle an arbitrarily large number of checkboxes. I don't want to have to deal wth fetching 30 different variables and coming up with unique names for all of them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Mitzi]

I wouldn't of though that was possible without any scripting. In your example, are you sure the value of ?checkbox isn't parsed and generated by a script before submission - perhaps theres a little javascript or something to build up the variable???

If not I'd sure like to know how to do it. I guess I must be a wimp

 

[IaPuP]

After spending several hours poking around, I'm not entirely sure it's possible without a bit of javascript either.

I recall opening the source for that page and noticing a tag something like PANEL or PANE . Sounds a lot like Java to me.

hmpf I was hoping there was some magical HTML that could do it for me. Thanks for the help.

Eric