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How do I pre-populate (set) the value of a radio button in a form?

I have a form that I use to create a new recipe. I have a radio button group like this:

I want to use the same form to modify an existing recipe. I know how to pull in the text fields for the recipe (from my database) so that the form is populated with the "existing" data.
But I don't know how to pull in the stuff for my radio buttons.

I have radio buttons for the difficulty: easy, moderate, etc.
In my database, I have a field (rs_RecipeDetails.Difficulty) that contains, for example, the word "easy".

The code for my buttons is:
<input type="radio" name="Difficulty" value="Easy" />
<input type="radio" name="Difficulty" value="Moderate" />
etc.

How do I set the radio button for "easy" ? (That is, how do I preset it based on what is already in the database field "Difficulty"?

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alicia1234

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It doesn't ... ;-(

Here's what I put in:
<input type="radio" name="Difficulty" value="Easy"
<cfoutput>
#IIF(rs_RecipeDetails.Difficulty eq "Easy",
DE("Selected"),DE(""))#
</cfoutput>/>

For my test, I did verify that "Difficulty" is, indeed, "Easy" with a capital E.

alicia1234

ASKER

What's the "DE" ??

alicia1234

ASKER

And where would I look up "IIF" ... it's not in HTML reference ...

alicia1234

ASKER

In the accepted answer: I changed "Selected" to "checked" (after examining the help for the HTML input tag) and then it worked correctly.
Thanks!