Forms: FrontPage 2000
Create Radio Buttons

The radio button is a form element that allows the user to select only one of a number of offered choices.

The form element name refers to the fact that you can choose to press only one button (i.e., listen to only one station) at a time on a car radio.

The radio button tag requires a VALUE for each possible choice.

VALUE refers to the actual data being collected.

The VALUE attribute identifies the information gathered when a user specifies a particular choice from a list provided by you.

Example

In what county do you  live?
Arlington   Fairfax   Loudoun    Prince William

To add a radio button to your web page using FrontPage 2000, choose Insert, Form, Radio Button from the main menu.


Forms menu

To specify the properties of the radio button, highlight it.

Choose Edit, Form Field Properties from the main menu or right click on the radio button itself.

The Radio Button Properties dialog box will appear.

Radio Button properties dialog box
In the Group Name text box fill in a word that will describe the information in the set of radio buttons.   (In the example above, the radioset might be called county).
In the Value text box fill in the name of the value for that particular button.  Usually the form developer assigns a value to the button that is the same as the name users select when they choose that particular radio button. (In the example above the value for the first radio button would be arlington).

Set the Tab order. The tab order is the order in which users of your form will move through the form by clicking on the Tab key.

Click on OK.

Repeat the process for the remainder of the radio buttons in the radioset.

Choose Initial State Selected if you wish a particular radio button choice to be pre-selected.

Forms: FrontPage 2000
Overview
Create a Form
Create Text and Password Boxes
Create Radio Buttons
Create Check Boxes
Create a Drop-Down Menu
Create a Scrolling Text Box
Create the Reset and Submit Buttons

 

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