values

Question

<input type="checkbox" name="gender" value="1" />Male <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="gender" value="2" />Female <br />

this lesson is introducing checkbox inputs. but in the line of code it lists a value in numerical order. i changed the number to see if something happened and nothing did. what is the purpose of this value?

Answer 1

Value is used by Javascript you don’t know Javascript yet so don’t worry about it

Answer 2

TurtleShell oooh gotcha. thanks