Fellow monks,

I'm using CGI for a simple shopping cart script and I'm running in to some unexpected behaviour from the single checkbox function.

Given the following snippet of code:

$query->td({-colspan => 2, -width => '100%', -bgcolor => 'blue'},
   $query->font({-color => 'white', -size => '-1', -face => 'arial, he
+lvetica'},
   $query->b('Shipping Information')).
   $query->font({-color => 'white', -size => '-2', -face => 'arial, he
+lvetica'},' (Check to use Billing Information:)').
   $query->checkbox(-name => 'copy', -value => 'off', -OnClick => 'jav
+ascript:ShipToBillPerson(this.form);')
   )
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which outputs this in the html genereation

<td bgcolor="blue" width="100%" colspan="2">
   <font face="arial, helvetica" color="white" size="-1">
      <b>Shipping Information</b>
   </font>
   <font face="arial, helvetica" color="white" size="-2">
      (Check to use Billing Information:)
   </font>
   <input type="checkbox" name="copy" value="" onclick="javascript:Ale
+rt('Checked!');" />
      copy
</td>
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My question is, why the text "copy" is being inserted. I thought that naming the checkbox element was for referencing it through the param function? If I eliminate the -name part, I won't be able to see if it was checked will I? Also since "copy" is showing up in my text, what have I missed to eliminate "copy" as text on the page?

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