Re: Getting checkboxes in HTML output?

[Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>]

On 2013-12-02 03:44, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
> I agree, but couldn't think of any other way. There are 3 other
> unicode options:
> 
> 	1. A box with an X  (☒ U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X)
> 	2. A bare (unboxed) X (✗ U+2717 BALLOT X)
> 	3 A bare checkmark (✓ U+2713 CHECK MARK)
> 
> I  also found this character:
> 
> U+237B ⍻ not check mark
> 
> If you think one of those would work we could use it instead.
> 
> No, I don't think any of them does it.
> 
> From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkbox:
> 
> ╭──── Tri-state checkbox
> │
> │ Some applications use checkboxes that allow an indeterminate state in
> │ addition to the two provided by a normal checkbox. This third state 
> is
> │ shown as a square or dash in the checkbox, and indicates that its 
> state
> │ is neither checked nor unchecked. This is most often used when the
> │ checkbox is tied to a collection of items in mixed states.
> ╰────
> 
> Something like [-] could be nice, then, as corresponds to the Org look
> and feel.

Unfortunately, a symbol like this is unavailable in unicode and the
html checkbox is only two state. The only HTML solutions i've found
involve javascript and images rather than html checkbox (input)
elements.


rick