From: A LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T00:39:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Mechanize and Radiobuttons

On 8/11/06, barjunk <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> I have found Mechanize fairly intuitive and easy to use. (after
> learning some HTML! :)) and wondered if I'm doing something wrong when
> using radiobuttons.
>
> There are two radio buttons on the form I am working with and wondered
> if when I set the second button
>
> forms.radiobuttons[1].checked=true
>
> It leaves radiobuttons[0] (the default button on the form) checked
> value as true as well.
>
> It's no problem to just set the originally set radiobutton
> forms.radiobuttons[0]=false, but since that's not how a radio button
> control would work in a browser, I thought I might be doing something
> wrong.
>
> Thanks for producing such an awesome tool!
>
> Mike B.
>

That's probably an HTML problem in the form. See
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp for an example. Note that
the name attribute must be set to the same string for each button in
the group.

-A