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CHAPTER

Adding Forms to Your Site 11

● When the page is viewed in

the browser, the check boxes

appear. Any or all of them

may be selected at the same

time.

7 Within the form, type

9 Repeat Steps 2 to 8 to add
additional check boxes.

Note: Be sure that all of the
name attributes are the same.

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TIPS

Can I have check boxes that are prechecked when

the page loads?

Yes. Each check box accepts an optional checked

attribute, which preselects the check box when

added. If you are using HTML, you can simply add

checked to the tag; XHTML, on the other hand,

requires that attributes have values, so you must

write checked=”checked” to precheck a box in

XHTML.

How can I lay out my check boxes?

If you want to have each check box on its own line,

you can simply add an HTML line break tag, <br>,

after each one. Alternately, you can use CSS layout

properties. See Chapter 6 for more about CSS layout

properties.