checkboxes - only one ticked at once

[Stryker]

Hi,

Could someone help me out with the code for my mailing list form please? The form consists of an email input field and two checkboxes, one which allows you to subscribe to the list and another one which allows you to unsubscribe. At the moment both checkboxes can be ticked, which obviously doesn't make sense because you can't subscribe and unsubscribe at the same time. Here's my HTML code...

 <form name="txtlist" action="grapevine/index.php" method="get">
          <br>
                  
          <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" class="asb">
             <tr><td width="427">
<input type="text" name="email" value="email address" size="20" maxlength="100" onFocus="if (this.value=='email address') this.value=''" onBlur="if (this.value=='') this.value='email address'" class="forms">
<input type="submit" name="sub" value="go" class="forms">
                        <input type="checkbox" name="type" id="type_sub" value="sub" checked>
                <label for="type_sub"> Subscribe</label>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="unsub" id="type_unsub">
                <label for="type_unsub"> Unsubscribe</label>
</td></tr>
 </table>
</form> 

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

[Floris]

Checkboxes are so that you can make multiple selections, what you are looking for is a radiobutton, then you can select only one.

[Merjawy]

I didn't try this but take a look

<form name="txtlist" action="grapevine/index.php" method="get">
		 <br>
 
		 <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" class="
asb">
			 <tr><td width="427">
<input type="text" name="email" value="email address" size="20" maxlength
="100" onFocus="if (this.value=='email address') this.value=''" onBlur="if (this.
value=='') this.value='email address'" class="forms">
<input type="submit" name="sub" value="go" class="forms">
						<input type="radio" name="type" id="type_sub" checked value="
sub" >
				<label for="type_sub"> Subscribe</label>
				&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="radio" name="type" value="unsub" id="
type_unsub">
				<label for="type_unsub"> Unsubscribe</label></td></tr>
</table>
</form> 

I didn't see your reply Floris sorry

[Stryker]

Thanks for the replies. I was using radio buttons before, but wanted to switch to checkboxes purely for aesthetic reasons. If it's not possible to use them in this way I can change the form back to the way it was before.

[Merjawy]

yes theres a way but for the good of it I just can't think or remember how.. but there is a way to use it with checkbox, when you check one the other gets unchecked..

sorry can't help you at this point

[diades]

Hi Stryker

I did this for a member of ours that had a situation that he had to do the same, check this out:
http://webxpertz.net/forums/showthre...hlight=Discuss

[Marco]

You should just use radiobuttons, seeing as this is exactly what they were intended for.

[Stryker]

Thanks very much. I'll give it a go and see which I prefer. Beetle's comments make sense, but even so it's good to know there's a solution to this 'problem'.