Un-sucking the Radio Button

re: Un-sucking the Radio Button

jstengel — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:47:57 GMT

@Dave

That's a good point. However, even if a label is used correctly, you still don't typically get any visual queue with the mouse that the label is clickable. You can create a style (label {cursor:hand;}) but I think that only works in IE if I remeber correctly.

I think this article does a nice job of defining how/why to use labels in .NET:

haacked.com/.../ASP.NET_Tip_-_Use_The_Label_Control_Correctly.aspx

re: Un-sucking the Radio Button

Dave — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:32:57 GMT

I would say that radio buttons only stink for me because people don't use the html label tag properly. You don't need to pinpoint the button only the text when done properly.

re: Un-sucking the Radio Button

jstengel — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:42:15 GMT

@Herman

True. However, not everyone knows Javascript. That's why I added it as a point in the "Reality Check" section. Neither one of these controls really have anything to do with AJAX and neither does the base objective of the solution. However, if the solution is already contained in an UpdatePanel, then it does matter and it's easier to see why using something from the Toolkit makes sense.

Good comment.

re: Un-sucking the Radio Button

Herman — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:08:53 GMT

Why use Ajax and not just Javascript to do this? There are standard javascripts available that will do this for you, without making performance laggy like you have with AJAX.