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A radio button or option button[citation needed] is a graphical control element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of mutually exclusive options. The singular property of a radio button makes it distinct from checkboxes, where the user can select and unselect any number of items.
Radio buttons are arranged in groups of two or more and displayed on screen as, for example, a list of circular holes that can contain white space (for unselected) or a dot (for selected). Each radio button is normally accompanied by a label describing the choice that the radio button represents. The choices are mutually exclusive; when the user selects a radio button, any previously selected radio button in the same group becomes deselected (making it so only one can be selected). Selecting a radio button is done by clicking the mouse on (or touching the screen over) the button, or the caption, or by using a keyboard shortcut.
Radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older radios to select preset stations – when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, leaving the pressed button the only button in the "pushed in" position.
In web forms, the HTML element <input type="radio">
is used to display a radio button. Example:
<form>
<input type="radio" name="season" value="winter" id="winter" checked>
<label for="winter">Winter</label>
<input type="radio" name="season" value="spring" id="spring">
<label for="spring">Spring</label>
<input type="radio" name="season" value="summer" id="summer">
<label for="summer">Summer</label>
<input type="radio" name="season" value="autumn" id="autumn">
<label for="autumn">Autumn</label>
</form>
A group of attributes is defined by name. In one group, only one radio button can be chosen.
Version 6 of the Unicode standard includes a character designated to represent a radio button, (🔘) at code point 128,280 (U+1F518), found in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs section. Similar characters are the mathematical operator U+2299 ⊙ CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR as well as U+25C9 ◉ FISHEYE and U+25CE ◎ BULLSEYE.
The font Wingdings 2 contains at position 153 and 158 glyphs that look like radio buttons.