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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:49:49+00:00

I am creating an HTML form with some radio button options. I’d like to

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I am creating an HTML form with some radio button options. I’d like to have one option as ‘Other – please specify’ and allow the user to type something in.

Two questions:

1) How can I make a ‘hybrid’ input type of radio/text?

2) On the PHP back end, if the input has the same name attribute as the radio inputs, will the user’s input be part of the same array?

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  1. #1: To the ‘other:’ radio field, add a <input type='text' ...> with style display:none and only display it when user selects the ‘other:’ radio field.

    However, I’m not entirely sure if #2 would work. You’d get rboption=other from the radio button AND rboption=some%20text from the text field. One will usually overwrite the other, but it’s not sure which (read: depends on position in page, browser and phase of the moon).
    To be sure, make the textfield name different and only process it when rboption == 'other' (like Salty said)

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