Payment Choice - radio buttons

[feemish]

Hi I am trying to implement the use of radio buttons to choose the payment method, instead of using the dropdown.
I am using the method detailed here in the knowledge base;

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...=radio+buttons

It all works ok... but no method is selected by default.
I have two choices and both radio buttons are empty.
Does anyone know how I can make one option (the first) be selected by default when the page is loaded?

Thanks

[Keith@Brand]

Hello Mark,

I dont know your set up so I dont know if this will work but this was taken from http:/ /www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_CHECKED.html

<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="color" VALUE="green" >Green<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="color" VALUE="red" >Red<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="color" VALUE="blue" CHECKED >Blue<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="color" VALUE="brown" >Brown


Looks like if you put "CHECKED" in the radio button code it will automatically set one

[feemish]

thanks for the reply Keith,

The set up I'm using is as per the knowledge base article I referenced above.. apart from those changes its standard v10.0.3

I do seem to have ''checked'' in the code, but it seems to repeat after the <br /> .. so I'm not sure how its supposed to work, because I imagine this would 'check' all the options.. but in fact it checks none.

5. In the fourth line replace <option selected="selected" value="%s">%s with

<input type="radio" name="PAYMENTMETHOD" value="%s" checked="checked">%s<br />

[Keith@Brand]

Sorry Mark I wouldnt be able to comment on the KB tutorial, I just googled it and had a look out of curiosity! The only thing I can think of is to go into your design tabs and manually find the radio buttons and see if you can add the "checked" option there? But I really dont know if thats a good idea so please take a snapshot before hand! maybe someone else can answer this?

Sorry

[Sean Williams]

This thread may be useful: http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=45963
Post #11 may be the one that helps most.
It's based on single-choice components and an optional checkbox.

[feemish]

thanks for the pointer to that Sean, but I'm not sure it helps me much.
The knowledge base article makes the change from drop down to radio buttons within Design:Text phase -1 ID 1951-1954...
So its not a usual code hack as far as I can see.

[Clive.Aspen]

Is that knowledge base article out of date?
Its from 2009..
Is there another way to get radio buttons for the payment method choice?

[leehack]

Which one you using Clive, I did this very recently and it worked fine?

[Clive.Aspen]

I just tried it out and it works (much better option than a drop down!) but as feemish says no option is selected by default... thats not good web practice is it.
Does yours have a default selection?

[leehack]

I'd always have a default one selected yes, from memory I added checked="checked".

[Sean Williams]

but as feemish says no option is selected by default... thats not good web practice is it.

Isn't it? Could anyone enlarge on this - we have lots of components with no default selection, because the components are optional!

[leehack]

Tickboxes are optional (square checkboxes), radio buttons (round checkboxes) are select one from the options with a default always selected.

[Clive.Aspen]

I'd always have a default one selected yes, from memory I added checked="checked".

Did you use the knowledge base article or use another method;

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...=radio+buttons

I just tried it and no radio button is selected by default..

[leehack]

Did you use the knowledge base article or use another method;

I just tried it and no radio button is selected by default..

I have the first one selected on the site i have installed it on, can't provide a link as its a test domain on a current build, happy to send you a link offline though to take a look. I don't recall following that specific article, but i might have, i really can't say. If your snapshot is small, you could email it and i can take a look for you and compare it with what i have if you like.

Just wondering if the cookie records your payment method, so it appears selected (2nd time round), when in fact it's a cookie doing that.

[Clive.Aspen]

If your snapshot is small, you could email it and i can take a look for you and compare it with what i have if you like.

I've got business plus... I was just trying this out on a test site.. I just used Site1 Silver theme and changed the Design:Text according to the knowledgebase article referenced earlier to check it out..
It changes the payment method from a dropdown choice to radio buttons but doesnt set a default payment option...
So you must have used a different method... can you remember which?