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Ok.. How do I make a radio box check itself using a variable.

Here is the line:
Extra News On

Extra News Off

$timnewson being the on variable
$timnewsoff being the off variable.

Now how do I make the radio check whichever one is set.

$timnewson = "CHECKED";

or

$timnewsoff = "CHECKED";

If you want the buttons to behave like grouped radio buttons, rather than independent check boxes, they should have the same NAME. Then when a user checks one of them, the browser will automatically uncheck the other one.

The 'CHECKED' attribute is still needed to determine which of them is initially checked.

Where exactly does that go ?

The CHECKED ? Right where you have the variables now.

Ok heres what I have.. The RADIO buttons are BOTH set to :
But now i have
But I only want that to activate if ON has been checked, not OFF as well.

To set which one is checked:

For the HTML:

Thanks for the help, i got it