Hypernym for "radio button" and "checkbox"? [closed]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Since I'm coding a shared css class for radio buttons and checkboxes, I would like to word it with the appropriate hypernym.

Kind regards

Solution 1:

I suggest one of the following words.

• choice
• selection

"choice", because whether the user is checking a box, unchecking a box, or choosing one item in a radio button list, they are clearly making a choice. A proprietary programming language used the term "choicelist" for a list with multiple check boxes.

"selection", because Google's Material Design web site calls check boxes and radio buttons "selection controls".

Solution 2:

Looking back at the World Wide Web Consortium's XForms specification (XForms 1.1, 2009; XForms 2.0, 2012), radio buttons and drop-down lists that allow only one choice are renderings of a select1 element, and check boxes and drop-down lists that allow more than one choice are renderings of a select element. (Most people don't know how to make multiple selections from a drop-down lists, but both XForms and HTML forms support this.)

So if the hypernym that is being requested here can also cover drop-down lists, I would suggest "select control" or "selection control".