Forms and Form Data

Standalone Checkbox

• The standalone checkbox construct allows you to create a single click box to be either turned on or off.
• The Perl CGI construct to create a standalone checkbox:
  

  # Generate a standalone checkbox, initialize checked
  print $query->checkbox({-name=>'CheckboxAloneOne',
  			-checked=>'checked'});
  print $query->br();
  
  

• The Perl CGI construct to then later extract the standalone checkbox state would be
  

      # Extract out whatever the state of the standalone checkbox was.
      # (Either "on" or an empty string)
      my $textInput = $query->param(-name=>'CheckboxAloneOne');
      print $query->hr();
      print $query->p('The checkboxalone state was:'), $query->br();
      print $query->em({-align=>'center'}, $textInput);
      print $query->hr();