Is checked=no valid in HTML checkboxes?
checkbox, html, validation
Solution
Short version: yes, it needs to be excluded.
The value of the attribute is irrelevant, as long as it is present, the box will be checked.
<input type="checkbox" name="Publish" value="true" checked />
This is valid in HTML5.
In XHTML, the attribute needed a value and the convention was `checked="checked"` since values like "yes" or "true" implied that the opposites would uncheck the box, which is not true and would confuse beginners. Similar conventions were adopted for `readonly="readonly"` and `disabled="disabled"`.
Problem
So, I've been fixing up my website. My website of course generates HTML from a "view". Right now, a portion of my view looks like this: ``` <input type="checkbox" name="Publish" checked="{=Entry.Publish ? "yes" : "no" =}" value="true" /> ``` This is the easiest way to go about this. However, when it generates `checked="no"`, the checkbox will still be checked by default whenever I load the page. Do I really have to exclude the `checked` attribute all together for it to not be checked? Also, I'm using HTML5 as my doctype.