Help with checkbox

I have some code like:

<td><label>Vokal:<input type=“checkbox” onclick=“javascript:convert_vokal()” id=“vokal”/></label></td>

The convert_vokal() changes a value vokal to true or false according to the state of the checkbox.

I have now implemented cookies which means the default value of vokal could be true. The checkbox should then be selected as default. How can i visually set the box being checked if vokal=true and not checked is vokal=false?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">

function Set(){
 var args=Set.arguments,x,s,z0=1,z0a;
 for (;z0<args.length;z0++){
  x=document.forms[0][args[z0]];
  if (x){
   s='';
   if (x.length){
    for (z0a=0;z0a<x.length;z0a++){
     s+=x[z0a].checked+'#';
    }
   }
   else {
    s=x.checked+'#';
   }
   document.cookie=args[z0]+'='+s+';expires='+(new Date(new Date().getTime()+args[0]*86400000).toGMTString())+';path=/';
  }
 }
}

function GetCookie(){
 var ary=['tom','joe','jill'],re,rtn,z0=0,z0a;
 for (;z0<ary.length;z0++){
  x=document.forms[0][ary[z0]];
  if (x){
   re=new RegExp(ary[z0]+'=[^;]+','i');
   rtn=(document.cookie.match(re)?document.cookie.match(re)[0].split("=")[1]:'').split('#');
   if (x.length){
    for (var z0a=0;z0a<rtn.length-1;z0a++){
     x[z0a].checked=rtn[z0a]=='true'?true:false;
    }
   }
   else {
     x.checked=rtn[0]=='true'?true:false;
   }
  }
 }
}

if (window.addEventListener){
 window.addEventListener('load',GetCookie, false);
}
else if (window.attachEvent){
 window.attachEvent('onload',GetCookie);
}

/*]]>*/
</script>

</script>

</head>

<body>
<form onclick="Set(1,'tom','joe','jill');">
<input type="checkbox" name="tom" /><input type="checkbox" name="tom" />
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="joe" />
<br />
<input type="radio" name="jill" /><input type="radio" name="jill" /><input type="radio" name="jill" /><input type="radio" name="jill" />
</form>
</body>

</html>

Wow, this is too complicated for a newbie like me. I’m impressed about what I think your code does and a can see I could probably use most of it in replace for the code I already use. If you have got some time left please take a look at my code at www.limesurvey.no/ord/index3.html

Your cookiecode looks very interesting if I could adapt it to my project. If you could advise how I could include your code in my own I would be very happy. If not, how can I adapt yout code? I really don’t understand much of it, I am afraid :slight_smile:

First you are calling function readCookie before it is available so you must place it before

var uppercase = (readCookie(“lesetreneren_uppercase”) == “true”);
var vokal = (readCookie(“lesetreneren_vokal”) == “true”);
var use_random = (readCookie(“lesetreneren_random”) == “true”);

second

to use my solution

your form elements must be given names and must be nested in a form as in my example