fyi, this feature is heavily requested in Github for their markup project:
https://github.com/github/markup/issues/208

So +1 on changing this behavior in Org mode markup itself, since there is
already user demand which would validate this usage.



On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> wrote:

> I noticed that HTML output contains "[ ]" and "[X]", just like the
> mark-up. Wouldn't it make sense to use actual unchecked or checked
> checkboxes in HTML?
>
> Is there a simple way to do this that I've overlooked?
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
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