PRB: Radio Button Does Not Bind Correctly to Boolean (185566)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Client SDK 4.0
  • Microsoft Internet Client SDK 4.01
This article was previously published under Q185566

SYMPTOMS

<INPUT> tags of type RADIO do not seem to bind to Boolean data correctly. This would occur in a RADIO group where one RADIO button would have a value of "true" and the other would have the value or "false."

CAUSE

For reasons that are apparent when you consider a text column bound to a text box, the string comparisons are case-sensitive. Zero and 1 are converted to "False" and "True" (notice the uppercase letters), respectively.

When a record from a bound data source is navigated to, the DATAFLD that the RADIO button is bound to is evaluated and converted to "True" or "False" before deciding which RADIO button to select. If the RADIO button's values are set to "true" and "false" (notice the lowercase letters), then the value returned from the data source would be equal to neither. For this reason, neither RADIO button will be selected.

RESOLUTION

If you change "true" and "false" in your page to "True" and "False," respectively, the page will behave as you desire.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Sample of Incorrect HTML

This is a sample page that show one RADIO values correctly and the other one incorrectly set for Databinding to a Boolean field: 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
<TITLE></TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBSCRIPT>
   Sub btnNext_OnClick()
      RDS1.recordset.MoveNext
      If RDS1.recordset.eof Then
         RDS1.recordset.MoveFirst
      End If
   End Sub
   </SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- RDS.DataControl -->
<OBJECT classid=clsid:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33 height=1 id=RDS1 
width=1>
<PARAM NAME="SERVER" VALUE="HTTP://YOURSERVER">
<PARAM NAME="CONNECT" VALUE="DSN=NWIND;">
<PARAM NAME="SQL" VALUE="SELECT * FROM PRODUCTS">
</OBJECT>
<P>&nbsp;</P>

<INPUT NAME=rdoDiscontinued TYPE=RADIO DATASRC=#RDS1 DATAFLD=Discontinued Value="True">True (When Discontinued, this radio button will be selected.)<BR>
<INPUT NAME=rdoDiscontinued TYPE=RADIO DATASRC=#RDS1 DATAFLD=Discontinued
                     Value="false">false (This one will never be selected)<BR>
Discontinued:<INPUT NAME=txtDiscontinued TYPE=TEXT DATASRC=#RDS1 DATAFLD=Discontinued readonly><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON NAME=btnNext VALUE="NEXT">
   
</BODY>
</HTML>

REFERENCES

For more information about developing Web-based solutions for Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/

http://support.microsoft.com/iep

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/11/2006
Keywords:kbprb KB185566
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