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Adriano Bacha
Adriano Bacha

Reputation: 1163

Mark a checkbox as checked in a word (.docx) form

I'm using ruby/nokogiri to parse a word form and fill the fields. I've already managed to fill the text fields but I'm having difficulties to check a checkbox. I've looked on the document.xml and didn't notice any different tags when the checkbox is marked or not

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5912

Answers (2)

Valentin Despa
Valentin Despa

Reputation: 42622

You need your XML to look like:

<w:ffData>
  <w:checkBox>
    <w:size w:val="20" />
    <w:checked w:val="true" />
  </w:checkBox>
</w:ffData>

Observe that w:checked has the parent w:checkBox. Documentation on CheckBox class

Alternatively you can set the default state.

Unchecked: <w:default w:val="0"/>

Checked: <w:default w:val="1"/>

 <w:ffData>
   <w:checkBox>
     <w:default w:val="1" />
   </w:checkBox>
 </w:ffData>

Upvotes: 3

Adriano Bacha
Adriano Bacha

Reputation: 1163

I've found the solution when a checkbox is checked, there is a tag: <checked /> and when it isn't checked it is: <checked val='0' />

Upvotes: 3

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