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characters mean in the string representations of list controls?

April 26, 2017characters controls list mean representations String

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characters mean in the string representations of list controls?

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* next to an item means that item is selected. • What do those parentheses (round brackets) mean in the string representations of list controls? Parentheses (foo) around an item mean that item is disabled. • Why doesn’t turn up in the data returned by .click*() when that control has non-None value? Either the control is disabled, or it is not successful for some other reason. ‘Successful’ (see HTML 4 specification) means that the control will cause data to get sent to the server. • Why does ClientForm not follow the HTML 4.0 / RFC 1866 standards for RADIO and multiple-selection SELECT controls? Because by default, it follows browser behaviour when setting the initially-selected items in list controls that have no items explicitly selected in the HTML. Use the select_default argument to ParseResponse if you want to follow the RFC 1866 rules instead. Note that browser behaviour violates the HTML 4.01 specification in the case of RADIO controls. • Why does .click()ing on a