I had this problem and it took a long search on the forum to figure out such a simple thing...hopefully this helps as there is no tutorial to be found from RsJoomla regarding this.


When you create a check box and the items are selected to flow vertically.
The choices look like this in your form component items area.

item1
item2
item3
item4


When the user fills out the form and selects more than one item however the email you get looks like this.

My checkbox:
item1item2item3

which is completely incomprehensible when you have many items or you are trying to enter this data into a database


So....in order for them to display properly in your emails do this.

Just Enter your checkbox choices as:

item1</br>
item2</br>
item3</br>
item4</br>


now..in your emails they will display like this

Field Name:
item1
item2
item3



of course this is given that this is how your emails are setup to display

{My checkbox:caption}
{My checkbox:value}


cheers!

Great suggestion indeed...

I was looking for a solution to this exact problem as well. This seems to be a good solution, but it also creates a space between the items on the front end of the site, which is not bad at all if one just has a small handfull of selections... The issue for me is that i have many items to select, 40, 50, or more... so it stretches the form out considerably when i need the larger selections to be tight.

Any ideas, suggestions?

Thank you,

the field attribute of the check box field needs to be horizontal. this way the additional line break won't occur when you manually insert the "<br>".

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Hello,

You don't need to include anything in particular within your checkbox items. When using its placeholder, this is designed to take into account the configured "Multiple Selections Separator" (while editing your form > Form Properties > Form Info) that you can set it to "<br>" (without quotations).

Then within your email body, you would simply place the checkbox's placeholder:

{videochoice:value}

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