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How to display Radio button horizontally in a form (multiple choice field)

  • October 24, 2012
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How to display Radio button horizontally in a form (multiple choice field)
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  • October 24, 2012
There is no way to have a form do horizontal radio button.do that. But it would be a nice feature to save vertical space on a form. An ugly work-a-round is to have check boxes and then form rules to make them act like radio buttons so that check box A unchecks when check box B is checked.
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  • October 24, 2012
I created an example a while back that transformed a multiple choice field into a vertical stack of radio buttons. I removed the <br/> in the code so the radio buttons stack horizontally now. This was an existing example and if done today I might approach it slightly differently:

https://www.quickbase.com/db/bgwnba97u?a=gennewrecord

https://quickbase-community.intuit.com/questions/59721-radio-button-redux

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  • October 25, 2012
Here is an blog post example that is similar to what you are asking about:

http://quickbase.posterous.com/a-form-you-are-comfortable-with

Although I formatted the checkboxes (you want radio buttons) vertically (you want a horizontal layout) it is a simple matter to change the code. The big picture is that QuickBase forms can be enhanced in unlimited ways and the code to do it is always very short.

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  • October 25, 2012
Just to comment on my own post - when I say "no way", I mean using native QuickBase.  Dan is able to modify how QuickBase works.