Hi, I am testing out sending a basic form using Netlify with checkbox groups to select multiple checkboxes at once. However, when the form is sent, it only ever returns the last checkbox value selected, not ALL of them. Right now I’m using basic html5 markup for the checkboxes (with the same name a…

Hi @mgenest , Can you link to the live form and share the HTML that you’re deploying as well? We’ll need to see that to help you debug.

thanks for coming back and letting us know the fix! this helps so many future users =]

Hi, Is it possible to give an example of it? For me, it sends the check box values as an array when I run it netlify dev. [ ‘JavaScript’, ‘Python’ ] But, the same code when I deploy on Netlify, doesn’t go as an array. It always prints the first element instead. Here is my check-boxes section insi…

Hey there, @atapas :wave: Thanks for reaching out! Sorry to hear you have encountered some forms difficulties. It looks like this thread has been a bit quiet this week. Are you still encountering this issue? If so, this Support Guide is the first port of call to debug any forms issues. There are a…

I fell into this pit and I had to add [] to the names of the checkbox elements. When I did this, Netlify’s form submissions started showing me an array of items, rather than a single item. Is this in the Netlify Forms tutorial somewhere and I missed it? I just now took a quick look and didn’t notic…

Hey there, @jbrains :wave: Thanks for sharing this feedback with us. I have gone ahead and passed this along to our Documentation team.

Form submission not showing multiple checkbox values

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mgenest July 15, 2019, 9:19pm 3

Hi @futuregerald

Actually, I’ve solved it by adding name="string[]" to any checkbox value group so it will return an array instead of just one value. Seems to work now.

Thanks!

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