Form.checkbox ViewHelper <f:form.checkbox>

ViewHelper which creates a simple checkbox <input type="checkbox">.

Examples

Simple one

<f:form.checkbox name="myCheckBox" value="someValue" />
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Output:

<input type="checkbox" name="myCheckBox" value="someValue" />
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Preselect

<f:form.checkbox name="myCheckBox" value="someValue" checked="{object.value} == 5" />
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Output:

<input type="checkbox" name="myCheckBox" value="someValue" checked="checked" />
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Depending on bound object to surrounding f:form.

Bind to object property

<f:form.checkbox property="interests" value="TYPO3" multiple="1" />
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Output:

<input type="checkbox" name="user[interests][]" value="TYPO3" checked="checked" />
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Depending on property interests.

Source code

Go to the source code of this ViewHelper: Form\CheckboxViewHelper.php (GitHub).

Arguments

The following arguments are available for the form.checkbox ViewHelper:

additionalAttributes

additionalAttributes
Type
array
Additional tag attributes. They will be added directly to the resulting HTML tag.

aria

aria
Type
array
Additional aria-* attributes. They will each be added with a "aria-" prefix.

checked

checked
Type
bool
Specifies that the input element should be preselected

data

data
Type
array
Additional data-* attributes. They will each be added with a "data-" prefix.

errorClass

errorClass
Type
string
Default
'f3-form-error'
CSS class to set if there are errors for this ViewHelper

multiple

multiple
Type
bool
Default
false
Specifies whether this checkbox belongs to a multivalue (is part of a checkbox group)

name

name
Type
string
Name of input tag

property

property
Type
string
Name of Object Property. If used in conjunction with <f:form object="...">, the "name" property will be ignored, while "value" can be used to specify a default field value instead of the object property value.

value

value
Type
string
Required
1
Value of input tag. Required for checkboxes