Hey obenboxstudios,
I just looked into your issue more deeply. I’m not sure if I get you right here.
Could you change it to accept a | separator for select, radio and checkboxes so that the value=”” can be a cleaner var.
Do you mean that you would like to be able to specify a value different from the label? If so, this is indeed not possible in CF7. I’m not comfortable adding features to Bootstrap for Contact Form 7 that should rather be core features of CF7. A more significant reason not to add this feature is that Contact Form 7 already uses the pipe for another feature, and I don’t want to add code that could possibly conflict with the original plugin’s functionality.
I’m afraid I cannot help you here, but if you need that feature, I encourage you to post it as a feature request for the original Contact Form 7 plugin. Whenever they will introduce it, I will adjust my plugin to be compatible with that feature.