Forms: Front Page Express
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 Express, you can choose Insert, Form Field, Radio Button from the main menu.


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You can also use the Radio Button button on the Forms toolbar.

Radio button button
Radio Button button

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

Choose Edit, Form Field Properties from the main menu. You can also perform this procedure by right clicking on the form element.

The Radio Button Properties dialog box will appear.

Radio button properties box
In the Group Name text box fill in a word that will describe the information in the set of radio buttons.   (In our example above, the radioset might be called county).
In the Value text box fill in the name of the value for that particular button (In our example above the value for the first radio button would be arlington).

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.

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