Allow activation of a checked radio button to clear it#12480
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This changes radio button activation so a user can return an optional radio group to its no-selection state by activating the checked radio button again.
Use case: optional questions in long forms.
Chromium issue 40761596 describes a form with an optional gender question. The form text says not to pick an option if none applies, but if the user accidentally selects one radio button, native radio behavior gives them no built-in way to return to the original no-selection state. They must rely on the page providing a separate clear/reset control, script, or discard the form.
Radio groups already support a no-selection state:
This change makes that no-selection state reachable through activation as well.
To preserve author-provided defaults, the proposed behavior restores the group's checked content attribute default instead of clearing to no selection when such a default exists. For example, if markup gives one radio button a
checkedattribute as a safe default, activating the currently checked radio again returns the group to that default state rather than leaving the group with no selected radio.Demo: https://static.januschka.com/i-40761596/index.html
Chromium issue: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40761596