# How to Checkbox on a Web Form? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 8, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-checkbox-on-a-web-form/407322 "2007-06-08T23:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-checkbox-on-a-web-form/407322/1 "2007-06-08T23:17:15Z")
Well, this should be easy… When I am filling out a form on a webpage I like to tab to the various fields to fill them in, since it is far quicker than mouse-clicking in each one. Yet, when I get to a box that can be checked or unchecked (“I have read the terms of service and agree…” for example), I don’t know how to check it without clicking with the mouse. So how do you check a box on a form from the keyboard? ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-checkbox-on-a-web-form/407322/2 "2007-06-08T23:18:49Z")
Spacebar? ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-checkbox-on-a-web-form/407322/3 "2007-06-08T23:19:41Z")
Usually with the spacebar, in most forms. If that doesn’t work, I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-checkbox-on-a-web-form/407322/4 "2007-06-08T23:22:52Z")
Like I said, easy. Thanks, that seems to be it.