method

checkbox

v1_8_6_287 - Show latest stable - 0 notes - Class: CGI::HtmlExtension

checkbox(name = "", value = nil, checked = nil) public

Generate a Checkbox Input element as a string.

The attributes of the element can be specified as three arguments, name, value, and checked. checked is a boolean value; if true, the CHECKED attribute will be included in the element.

Alternatively, the attributes can be specified as a hash.

  checkbox("name")
    # = checkbox("NAME" => "name")

  checkbox("name", "value")
    # = checkbox("NAME" => "name", "VALUE" => "value")

  checkbox("name", "value", true)
    # = checkbox("NAME" => "name", "VALUE" => "value", "CHECKED" => true)

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# File lib/cgi.rb, line 1416
    def checkbox(name = "", value = nil, checked = nil)
      attributes = if name.kind_of?(String)
                     { "TYPE" => "checkbox", "NAME" => name,
                       "VALUE" => value, "CHECKED" => checked }
                   else
                     name["TYPE"] = "checkbox"
                     name
                   end
      input(attributes)
    end

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