Say I have a simple cfform that looks like this:
<cfform id="fruitForm" method="post" action="">
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_apple" value="Apple" /><label for="fruit_apple">Apple</label><br />
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_orange" value="Orange" /><label for="fruit_orange">Orange</label><br />
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_pear" value="Pear" /><label for="fruit_pear">Pear</label><br />
<cfinput type="submit" name="submitFruit" id="submitFruit" value="Submit" />
</cfform>
How can I use the built-in cfform validation to ensure that at least one radio button in this group is selected? I've tried adding a validate="required" to each of the radio buttons but it doesn't work. Is there any simple way to "require" one of the buttons to be selected using cfform validation?
Do yourself a favor and don't use cfform
for validation. Write your own server and client side validation, but according to the cfinput documentation if you add a required="true"
attribute to each radio button ColdFusion will do the client side validation for you.
Note: The user can bypass this validation and still submit a form without checking a radio button. You need to have server side validation as well.
<cfform id="fruitForm" method="post" action="">
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_apple" value="Apple" required="true" /><label for="fruit_apple">Apple</label><br />
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_orange" value="Orange" required="true" /><label for="fruit_orange">Orange</label><br />
<cfinput type="radio" name="fruit" id="fruit_pear" value="Pear" required="true" /><label for="fruit_pear">Pear</label><br />
<cfinput type="submit" name="submitFruit" id="submitFruit" value="Submit" />
</cfform>