How do we use radio buttons in HTML forms?

HTML Web Development Front End Technology

Using HTML forms, we can easily take user input. The <form> tag is used to get user input by adding the form elements. Different types of form elements include text input, radio button input, submit button, text field area etc.

In this article, let us learn how to use radio buttons in HTML forms to get user input. Radio buttons are used when out of many options, just one option is required to be selected. They are also created using HTML <input> tag and the type attribute is set to radio.

S. No.	Attribute & Description
1	type Indicates the type of input control and for checkbox input control it will be set to a radio.
2	name Used to give a name to the control which is sent to the server to be recognized and get the value.
3	value The value that will be used if the checkbox is selected
4	checked Set to checked if you want to select it by default

Syntax

Following is the syntax to create a radio button in HTML.

<form>
   <input type="radio" name="name… " value=" ">Male
</form>

Example 1

In the following example, let us learn how to use radio buttons in HTML forms −


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta name="description" content="meta tag in the web document">
   <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS">
   <meta name="author" content="lokesh">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<p>Branch</p>
<form>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="CSE">CSE
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="IT">IT
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ECE">ECE
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="EEE">EEE
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ivil">Civil
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="Mech">Mech
</form>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

You can try to run the following code to learn how to work with radio buttons in HTML −


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<head>
   <title>HTML Radio Button</title>
</head>
<p>Gender</p>
<form>
   <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male">Male
   <br>
   <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female">Female
</form>
</body>
</html>

Example 3

We also use <label> tag along with the input tag. The <label> tag defines a label for several elements in the HTML.

We mainly use label for defining the value for the radio button.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta name="description" content="meta tag in the web document">
   <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS">
   <meta name="author" content="lokesh">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<p>Branch</p>
<form>
   <input type="radio" id="CSE" name="Branch" value="CSE">
   <label for="CSE">CSE</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="IT">
   <label for="CSE">IT</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ECE">
   <label for="CSE">ECE</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="EEE">EEE
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ivil">Civil
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="Mech">Mech
</form>
</body>
</html>

Example 4

Set to checked if you want to select it by default of any of the option. We use checked attribute value to true to select a option by default. Look at the example below −


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8">
   <meta name="description" content="meta tag in the web document">
   <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS">
   <meta name="author" content="lokesh">
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<p>Branch</p>
<form>
   <input type="radio" id="CSE" name="Branch" value="CSE" >
   <label for="CSE">CSE</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="IT" checked="true">
   <label for="CSE">IT</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ECE">
   <label for="CSE">ECE</label>
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="EEE">EEE
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="ivil">Civil
   <input type="radio" name="Branch" value="Mech">Mech
</form>
</body>
</html>