Re: Checkboxes

On Jan 29, 2008 6:20 PM, A Monkey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does your checkbox have a "value" attribute? If your checkbox has a
> "value" attribute then htmlfill will mark your checkbox as checked
> only if the value specified in the defaults matches the "value"
> attribute of the checkbox. If the checkbox has no "value" attribute,
> then specifying a default value of True will leave it checked.

Well, my real value is a Python boolean from SQLAlchemy..  My HTML has
value="1".  htmlfill changes the value to 'yes'.  I'm usin g the
StringBoolean validator.

Originally I called it as:

    rslt = htmlfill.render(html, {'mycheckbox': record.field})

I had better luck when I changed it to:

    rslt = htmlfill.render(html, {'mycheckbox':
        record.field and "1" or ""})

But I'm still testing it.  I think I also pre-set the
initially-checked state, though I'd have to check that tomorrow.

But I wish htmlfill would set the checkbox based on the boolean value,
which seems like the most pythonic way to do it.

I can try it without a value attribute and see if that works better.
But then it won't be compatible with WebHelpers, which defaults to
value='1'.

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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