Web and WebWorks Development

[incarnis]

Hi

I am developing a browser-based portal for managing field service engineers. It is mostly designed for PC-based browsing, but I need to make sure some parts work on the BlackBerry (9000/Bold).

The problem I am having is that I have a group of four radio buttons, one of which is CHECKED by default. On the BlackBerry, I can never uncheck the default one, regardless of which radio button is selected. If I don't default it to checked, all radio buttons work fine.

This all works OK on other browsers - just not on the BlackBerry.

(my software version is v4.6.0.162 (platform 4.0.0.155))

Here is the HTML source when viewed on Firefox (you can see option 1 is checked):

<tbody><tr>
    <td class="Heading1WithBackground" colspan="2" align="center">
     Update Your Status
    </td>
   </tr>
   <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="ustatus.php"></form>
    <tr><td><br></td></tr>
    <tr>
     <td class="Heading1" colspan="2" align="center">Select new status:</td>

    </tr>
     <tr>
      <td colspan="1" align="left"><p>
       <input id="statavail" name="newstatus" value="1" checked="checked" type="radio">
       available
      </p></td>
     </tr>
  
     <tr>
      <td colspan="1" align="left">

       <input id="enroute" name="newstatus" value="3" type="radio">
  enroute
        to incident 
      </td>
  
      <td colspan="1" align="left">
       <select name="enroute_task">
  
            <option title="Something is wrong with my equipment. Please fix it." value="SJ030002">SJ030002</option>
         </select>
        </td>
       </tr>

 
       <tr><td><br></td></tr>
       <tr>
        <td colspan="1" align="left">
         <input id="occup" name="newstatus" value="4" type="radio">
         working on incident 
        </td>
        <td colspan="1" align="left">
         <select name="workingon_task">
   
            <option title="Something is wrong with my equipment. Please fix it." value="SJ030002">SJ030002</option>

       </select>
      </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
      <td colspan="2" align="center">Lone worker on site?&nbsp;
      <input name="loneworker" type="checkbox">
      </td>
     </tr>

     <tr><td><br></td></tr>
   
    <tr>
     <td colspan="1" align="left">
      <input id="unavail" name="newstatus" value="2" type="radio"> unavailable
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
     <td colspan="2" align="center">
      <input name="form_result" value="submit" type="submit">

     </td>
    </tr>
   
  </tbody>

 The html looks a little different when viewed on the Blackberry using ALT-RBVS, but I couldn't figure out how to grab the source from there!

I would appreciate any help - this is driving me crazy!

Message Edited by incarnis on 02-18-2009 06:47 AM

[staktrace]

Try moving the /form tag to after the inputs and make sure they're all contained inside the form using alt+RBVS.

[incarnis]

Hi

Thanks for the response.

The form tag is actually already after the inputs - Firefox is re-jigging the html!

The html is being created from php (which is why I didn't post the original source)...and the </form> is right after all the inputs.

[Xandrex · Accepted solution]

can you publish that webpage somewhere and give us the link ?
it'll be easier to debug.

moreover, be sure that your document is HTML 401 compliant by using http://validator.w3.org/

[incarnis]

Unfortunately I can't publish it externally - it's commercially sensitive.

I have tried the w3 validator and got a lot of slaps on the wrist about upper case tags. I am going to plough through the HTML and fix everything to the validator's standard (if possible).

[incarnis]

Thanks for your help - I corrected problems found by the validator, which included the fact that it didn't like my form starting within a table, and trailing />'s on the end of each <input> tag. Once it validated OK, it worked! I guess the BB browser is very picky - not necessarily a bad thing!

Cheers

Simon