If a set of checkboxes have the same name the HTML form encoding is different to those with different names. [image] - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN elements of type checkbox are rendered by default as boxes that are checked (ticked) when activated, like you might see in an offi…

Oh, sorry I forgot to add that. The site does a little pre submit logic but that can;t be affecting the form content encoding. I also use liquid includes to create the form element - but the generated code all looks fine to me. The github preview mangles this page :frowning: https://github.com/w3c…

Hi @slim , Could we see the site in question?

I believe this is expected, because that’s the data being sent by the browsers. I mean, here’s Chrome: [image] We show the value for the last data with the same name. I think you’d have to use different names for each of these.

[image] hrishikesh: We show the value for the last data with the same name. I think you’d have to use different names for each of these. Yes that is the bug. You are not correctly handling valid encoded form data. See the MDN article or HTML specification. We can work around as you say thoug…

Thanks. Realistically this will be low priority as it’s obscure and somewhat impracticable to use. The only reason I had code using identical ‘name’ attribs, remembered it was valid and checked the spec was that the original developer of the code I copied for testing with Netlfy forms was trying to…

Multiple checkboxes with the same name are not handled correctly

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hrishikesh January 16, 2022, 5:52pm 7

Thank you for that @slim. A bug has been filed for the engineers.

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Multiple checkboxes with the same name are not handled correctly

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