Problems with checkbox

[Janice Guevara]

Hi,

Please I need some help...

Everytime I submit the value of a checkbox it gets "false" even though I check it.And even if the value was checked when the page loads and I submit the form the checkbox does not maintain its value.

I'm using the request.getParameterMap() method to see what the values of my form are.

I'm also using javascript to set the value of the checkbox but it doesn't work...here are the function and the html code:

function setCheckbox(checkbox,columnName){
alert(checkbox.getState());
if(checkbox.checked){
document.getElementsByName(columnName).value="true";

}
else{
document.getElementsByName(columnName).value="false";
}

}


<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="<%=pageColumns.getName()%>" checked onCclick="setCheckbox(this, modify_<%=pageColumns.getName()%>)" />
<input type="hidden" name="modify_<%=pageColumns.getName()%>" id="modify_<%=pageColumns.getName()%>" />
</td>

Thanks...

[Bear Bibeault]

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[Bear Bibeault]

When a checkbox is checked, whatever is set as its value attribute will be sent on the request. When unchecked, no request parameter for the checkbox will be sent at all.

Be sure that your code accounts for this behavior.

[Stefan Evans]

So you want your onclick event to set the value of the hidden field?
I presume you intentionally misspelled "onclick" to get past the forum limitations.

- you need quotes around the columnName so that it generates as a javascript string to pass to the function

<input type="checkbox" name="<%=pageColumns.getName()%>" checked  onCclick="setCheckbox(this, 'modify_<%=pageColumns.getName()%>')"

[Janice Guevara]

when I get the checkbox value from the request.getParameterMap it is empty,it seems that it is not sent on the request...

[Bear Bibeault]

As I said.