Question

An app I’m working on using the Play! Framework has an object called gift with a boolean property, called Taken. How do I show the state of this value as a checkbox on my view? I’ve tried :-

<input id="gift_Taken" class="" type="checkbox" name="gift.Taken" value="true"  />
<input type="hidden" name="gift.Taken" value="false" />

based on examples I’ve seen from the autogenerated CRUD forms, but the checkbox is not checked when the property is True, which is what I’m aiming for.

Anyone know the correct way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You just need to set the checked value against the checkbox, if the value is true.

for example (assuming the object sent in from the view is called gift, and the boolean value is called Taken.

<input id="gift_Taken" type="checkbox" name="gift.Taken" ${gift.Taken ? 'checked':''}  />