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Louise Iyengar
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Louise Iyengar
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How would a number of checkbox input fields with the same name attribute value be processed by the server?

In an HTML form, I thought name=value pairs had to be one to one when GET or POSTed to a server-side program -- one name, one value. How come Nick has all checkboxes name= "user_interest" in the checkbox video for HTML Forms. How would the various values be processed if there is only one name?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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If only one box is checked, it would work much like a radio button group, and the name would be paired with the value of the checked item.

If more than one is checked, each name/value pair would be submitted to the server and it would be up to the server code to make sense of the response.