The fact that no-one understands your question seems to indicate that it isn't stated as clear as you might think.

Example:

I need to change this to a set value. ( ... ) want font size to be =4 -no radio button.
That makes no sense at all. 
<INPUT NAME=DESCSIZE TYPE=Radio 
VALUE="<FONT size=4>" checked><FONT size=4>4</FONT>

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Is not valid HTML. You either want to escape the value: 
<INPUT NAME=DESCSIZE TYPE=Radio 
VALUE="&lt;FONT size=4&gt;" checked><FONT size=4>4</FONT>

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or maybe you want something completely different. who can tell?

The second part of your code might or might not work. As you only post a tiny fragment of HTML, and don't give any indication of any problems there's no way we can tell what's wrong with it.

Please read how (not) to ask a question.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^2: OT: values not working. by Joost
in thread OT: values not working. by fred1010

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