Re: Equivalent of RadioNodeList for checkboxes

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Anurag Mishra wrote:
> 
> Recently a question regarding best practices for getting input radio 
> elements was posted on StackOverflow.com at 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2437190/best-practice-accessing-radio-button-group.. 
> I tried to lookup the specs and saw that a RadioNodeList interface has 
> been defined. The spec says that when accessing an HTMLFormsCollection 
> with the namedItem method, a RadioNodeList object is returned if 
> multiple elements are matched with same names.
> 
> interface RadioNodeList : NodeList {
>          attribute DOMString value;
> };
> 
> However, this seems to deal specifically with radio input elements. The 
> RadioNodeList interface defines an attribute value which is a DOMString. 
> Is there a similar interface for checkbox elements and their collection 
> that provides access to values of all elements that are checked?

Not currently. You can either check the checkboxes by index, or use 
different names for each checkbox.

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Received on Monday, 15 March 2010 21:17:44 UTC