Checkbox Initial Value

The checkboxes I've created in Form Builder are checked by defualt and I'd like them to not be checked. I cannot find anywhere to choose that. Oddly, even though they are showing that they are checked, they apparently are not. For example, if you choose something like "Same as Billing Address", the Mailing address form boxes are not automatically filled unless you uncheck and recheck the "Same As..." checkbox.

This is confusing to my customers.

What is the way to control the behavior of the check box display?

Thanks,

The checkboxes are defaulted to be checked. If you want to remove this, look at the checkbox field code after applying the form to the page. Find the code that looks like this:
{echo "checked=\"checked\"";}

Remove that code, since it adds the code that specifies the checkbox is checked.

The reason the Same as Billing Address does not copy the information over is that the script to copy the billing information to the shipping information runs when the checkbox is checked, so if it is defaulted as checked, the information never gets copied over. the checkbox is meant to be checked only after the billing information is all filled out correctly.

Jimmy,

I have the same problem with wanting a checkbox to be unchecked. I had created a checkbox using FB and left the Validation option unchecked since I didn't want that feature. So, I followed your advice to manually remove {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} associated with my checkbox; so, that worked.

But even after doing that, there must be some validation artifact there (even though I didn't select any Validation when I created the checkbox) that is requiring that the field to be checked. If I don't check the checkbox, I see a very narrow red box where an error message would probably be. It only goes away and allows the Submit button to work after checking the checkbox, i.e., I can't Submit the form if the checkbox is unchecked.

I created a simple checkbox that can be seen at test5.php so that you can see what I am talking about.

Any advice on how I can manually correct this problem? Thanks in advance.

This looks like it is caused by the client side validation. If you go to the page and click on the SPRY checkbox element and then in the properties inspector, change from Required (single) to Enforce Range (multiple), the for should submit even if the checkbox is not checked.

Note: In the code, you will notice that changing from Required to Enforce Range will modify a line of code similar to this one:
var fieldset_group_field_Spry = new Spry.Widget.ValidationCheckbox("fieldset_group_field_Spry", {validateOn:["blur"]});

To look like this:
var fieldset_group_field_Spry = new Spry.Widget.ValidationCheckbox("fieldset_group_field_Spry", {validateOn:["blur"], isRequired:false});

Thanks, Jimmy. Deleting the "echo" code and changing that one SPRY checkbox property to "Enforce Range" resolved my problem. Thanks again.