Making it more newbie friendly

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Darrel Patterson wrote:
Solution for pre-checked radio buttons.

Open the HTML file and find the code for the radio buttons. One will have "checked type="radio"", the rest will just have, "type="radio"". Delete the word "checked" and no more pre-checked radio button!



Hi Darrel,
I envy you the abilty to work with HTML files. It is a great suggestion, so I quickly looked for the HTML file and after much searching, I found it! I double clicked on it to open it, and lo and behold there was my form in my browser. Now what? I know, learn HTML, and use the program that is offered by CC. I'll get to that when I finish preparing my form which is HTML5 compliant (not complaint) using a program that has that.
See what I mean. Not everyone has that talent.
Back to to square one with my suggestion that Scot instruct his coders (programmers) to forget the w3c instruction about preselection and implement the change.
Guy
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Guy, if you don't have an HTML editor such as the great and fantastic CoffeeCup HTML Editor, just right click on the file and select "open with", then select Notepad. Then you can edit the line as Darrel suggested and resave the file. Do not use a program such as Wordpad or MS Word or they will throw unwanted formating into the file, but Notepad will work just fine. Be sure to first save a backup copy of the original file in case something goes wrong so you can revert back. The hardest part will probably reading through all the code to find the string you need to change. Very simple actually. Have fun. :)
Robert Bruce
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Transferred these out of the Tips & Tricks thread so they don't get lost in the shuffle... which they probably will anyways lol.

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