Ah gracious monks,

I must be missing something, but I 've had a look around and can't find anything on this. I'm trying to read the value of a checkbox on a form. When it's checked, I can print out the value, but when I uncheck it and re-submit, I don't have a value.

The plan was to hold this value (along with a few others) in a cookie so that I can correctly default settings on the page.

The question is, how do I find the value of an unchecked box?

 

Thanks.

#!c:\perl\bin\perl -w

BEGIN {
    $|=1;
    use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
}

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $x = new CGI;


print $x->header;

print param('TB');

print <<EOF;
<form method="POST" action="temp.pl">
  <p>
  <input type="checkbox" name="TB" value="ON" checked=0> check</p>
  <p>
  <input type="submit" value="Refresh" name="BRef"></p>
</form>
EOF
;
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