Radio buttons need to be grouped for proper interaction

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Radio buttons need to be grouped for proper interaction #71

Open chris-morgan opened 4 years ago

chris-morgan commented 4 years ago

Radio buttons should always belong to a group, so that things like the arrow keys work to select a different value, and so that accessibility tools can understand what’s going on with them.

In HTML, this means that grouped radio buttons need to share a name attribute.

hecrj commented 4 years ago

Yes, I agree.

This should also improve their API and ensure you cannot use them as a multiselection widget, where checkboxes would make more sense.

The main challenge here, in the long run, will be styling flexibility.

breynard0 commented 3 months ago

We could have something like a RadioButtonContainer, which can use Rust builder syntax to place in radio buttons. An issue I can see is that if someone wants an unconventional radio button layout it could get tricky, but I feel like it's possible to work around that.