Radio Button onClick Response Help

[davej]

How does a form affect radio button behavior?

[Hadien]

Well, Specifically for Radio, the only thing that immediately comes to mind is using a <input type="reset"> button to empty the Radios. There may be more you can do for Radio that currently eludes me. It likely has a stronger impact on things you can't replicate (at least easily) via JavaScript like assistive technologies, as this link below seems to imply, though I don't know this first hand.

 

MDN How to Structure an HTML Form

 

 

Note that it's always possible to use a form widget outside of a <form> element but if you do, that form widget has nothing to do with any form. It can be convenient to use such widgets outside of a form but it means that you have to have a special plan for such widgets, since they'll do nothing on their own. You'll have to customize its behavior with JavaScript.

 

 

paulm, you should take a look at that link, it presents a number of use case examples that your users can take advantage of. Like using fieldsets to have browser read assistants properly read out information to the user.

[davej]

With the nearly universal move to Ajax I'm not sure what to think of forms anymore. I had forgotten about reset, but you don't normally click on a reset button anyway. I guess HTML5 has some new auto-validation features that might need to be inside a form.

[Ingolme]

With the near universal move to Ajax I'm not sure what to think of forms anymore.

AJAX is a complement to forms, not a replacement of them.

[davej]

Well, there used to be this idea that some people might have Javascript turned off, but more and more that is becoming a hopeless option.

[Ingolme]

Well, there used to be this idea that some people might have Javascript turned off, but more and more that is becoming a hopeless option.

It depends on whether your product is a client-side application or whether it's a server-side application. Imagine how it might be if this forum was purely Javascript-based. We get enough complaints about its functionality as it is.

[paulm]

MDN How to Structure an HTML Form

 

paulm, you should take a look at that link, it presents a number of use case examples that your users can take advantage of. Like using fieldsets to have browser read assistants properly read out information to the user.

Thanks again, seems <fieldset> is used to group like-fields within a form; draws a box around the fields. Disable is an option. Seems this could be useful in a long form with field set data you want to process without submitting the whole form. In the meantime attaching function to onClick method in a form seems to give a lot of functionality even when not submitting data to server/db.