Good day to all!

There is an old HTML problem -- browsers do not send anything about unchecked checkboxes when submitting forms. How do you people usually use HTML::FillInForm to uncheck checkboxes which default to checked state?

Example: 

<form>
<input type=checkbox name=c checked>
</form>

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Suppose, I want to refill this form using HTML::FillInForm after user submitted the form. She unchecked the checkbox. To repeat unchecking the checkbox I need to pass c => 0 to fill() but browsers in their eternal wisdom do not send me anything about the checkbox so my code now needs knowledge that there is such a control on the form.

I've faced the issue ten or more times and always used some hacks with enumerating all checkboxes in a list and then generating pairs to pass to fill(). Are there cleaner ways?

--kap

In reply to HTML::FillInForm vs. checked by default checkboxes by kappa

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