How To Deselect A Radio Button

Sometimes radio buttons can be quite frustrating as a user when you need to deselect having answered a question.

Here's a quick way to temporarily allow a page to deselect radio buttons by pressing Ctrl + Click

1. Navigate to any page that has radiobuttons. Here's an example of one:

2. Click F12 to open up the developer tools

3. Navigate to the Console Pane

4. Copy and paste in the following code into the editor:

   
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   document.addEventListener('click', function(e){
       if (e.ctrlKey == true &&
           e.target.tagName == 'INPUT' &&
           e.target.type == "radio" &&
           e.target.checked == true) {
           e.target.checked = false;
       }
   });
   

5. Click Run Script (or hit Enter)

6. Now, to deselect a radio button just go back to the page and hold down Ctrl and click with your mouse.

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Note: Of course, by the time you're opening up the developer tools, you can just edit the HTML directly, but this is a little more reusable.