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Mike Burdick
05-24-2005, 10:33 PM
Is there some value I can use so that a radio group will come up without any of the values punched? I tried null and '''' but it just came up with the first one selected.

Thanks....
Mike Burdick
05-25-2005, 07:38 AM
Never mind - I figured it out. Just use any value that is not one of the choices.
Jeff Mott
05-25-2005, 08:28 PM
The reason it is made difficult to do is because it is technically illegal to not have any radio button within a set checked.

From the HTML specification, "At all times, exactly one of the radio buttons in a set is checked. If none of the <INPUT> elements of a set of radio buttons specifies `CHECKED', then the user agent must check the first radio button of the set initially."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#radio