How can I make a group of checkboxes mutually exclusive?

Question

I have to make mutually exculsive checkboxes. I have come across numerous examples that do it giving example of one checkbox group. One example is at http://blog.schuager.c

Answer 1

No matter where the check box is located on your page, you just need to specify the group and here you go!

     pending
     solved
     timed out

     male
     female

     Isolated