Title: Required Fields Bug
Last modified: May 25, 2018

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# Required Fields Bug

 *  [rocky_beach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky_beach/)
 * (@rocky_beach)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-bug-4/)
 * it’s bugged in current version – it sets every radio button as required, although
   it is not. so when someone submits the form, it marks every radio button with
   an error message.
    please fix asap.
 * unfortunately i can’t link the website, as i had to go back to an older version
   to make it work again. but i tested it with a new form as well, happened immediately
   as soon as i added a radio button.

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 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-bug-4/#post-10327957)
 * >  radio represents a group of radio buttons (<input type=”radio”> in HTML). 
   > Note that there is no required version of radio (“radio*”). The reason Contact
   > Form 7 doesn’t provide “radio*” is because a radio button is a required field
   > by nature. The HTML spec document explains it more in detail.
 * [https://contactform7.com/checkboxes-radio-buttons-and-menus/](https://contactform7.com/checkboxes-radio-buttons-and-menus/)
 *  Thread Starter [rocky_beach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky_beach/)
 * (@rocky_beach)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-bug-4/#post-10328007)
 * Sorry, but did you read my question, or read the spec linked in the page you 
   cited?
    I did not set any radio button set as required. Always worked fine. The
   Spec says: “If none of the <INPUT> elements of a set of radio buttons specifies`
   CHECKED’, then the user agent must check the first radio button of the set initially.”
   So how is that a reason for Contact Form 7 to throw an error since a recent update?
   Not to mention that this is a change that kills tons of existing forms – without
   any warning on updating…

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 * Last reply from: [rocky_beach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky_beach/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-fields-bug-4/#post-10328007)
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