I am sorry, it is a misunderstanding. I had the state of the radio button when it is pressed, not the attribute name in mind. The attribute may be called "ratubled", "hodagred", "grabuntious" or whatever; it does not influence the fact that a pressed radio button is not checked. In other words, while it is possible that the value of the attribute named "checked" of a radio button may be "true", it does not make it checked indeed. Cheers Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Pieters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:47 PM To: Křištof Želechovski; 'Jon Barnett' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Garrett Smith' Subject: Re: [whatwg] successful form controls On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:26:19 +0200, Křištof Želechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What makes you think that a radio button can be checked? My trust in > your > statement will be inversely proportional to its self-confidence. Please > use > some supporting arguments instead of bold assurances. Perhaps you could check the specs or try it in some browser? :-) HTML4: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-checked DOM2 HTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-30233917 Try it: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E %0D%0A%3Cp%3EUnchecked%20(default)%3A%20%3Cinput%20type%3Dradio%3E%0D%0A%3Cp %3EChecked%20with%20attribute%3A%20%3Cinput%20type%3Dradio%20checked%3E%0D%0 A%3Cp%3EChecked%20with%20script%3A%20%3Cinput%20type%3Dradio%20name%3Dfoo%3E %0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%20foo.checked%20%3D%20true%20%3C%2Fscript%3E -- Simon Pieters