Re: Problems with HTML::TEMPLATE

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:15:08PM -0800, Rama Srinivas wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Thanks for the feed back.
> 
> I had to specifically mention CHECKED="CHECKED" in the if statement to make
> it work.
> Simply by saying CHECKED alone (though a valid html attribute) does not seem
> to work.

  That's actually not a function of HTML::Template, it's a function of
the browser.  I seem to recall I noticed something like this with IE,
whereas Mozilla worked better, but I could have it backwards.

> Basically to be more clear I tried doing this first
> <input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes" <tmpl_if
> yesBeeps>cheecked</tmpl_if>  it did not work.
> 
> but by doing this it worked
> 
> <input type="radio" name="beepStatus" value="yes" <tmpl_if
> yesBeeps>cheecked="checked"</tmpl_if>  worked out well.
> 
> I am guessing the html template engine must be looking for some name-value
> pairs and just by seeing a single value with out a matching name would have
> rejected interpreting it.

  Just for future reference, H::T doesn't snoop the values that way. 
For all it cares, it could say "Pastrami!"

  -- Clifton

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