Opera incorrectly reporting explicit empty values of radio buttons/checkboxes
October 17th, 2005
When reading the value attribute of a radio button or a checkbox and that value attribute is explicitely set to an empty value in HTML, Opera (tested 8.5) returns on instead of the empty value.
If you in particular rely on that it returns an empty value because you expect that value serverside its getting problematic.
Testcases
In both cases, value is set to an empty value: value="".
No real workaround so far except browser sniffing/hacking.
Entry Filed under: Browser Woes,Opera
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1. Bill Dimm | November 9th, 2005 at 21:22
You can work around this by using node.getAttribute(‘value’) instead of node.value.
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