Javascript and I will never be best friends.
I try to set a checkbox to checked by changing the elements from a dropdownlist.
This is the snippet
<select name="change_status_to" id="sel">
<option>....</option>
<option>....</option>
</select>
<input type="checkbox" name="do_status_change" value="on">
How could I use Javascript with the onchange-event to set the checkbox to the state checked?
You can set its .checked
property:
document.getElementById("do_status_change").checked = true;
document.getElementById("do_status_change").checked = false;
However, you need to set an id
; the name
attribute will not suffice.
> Example <
Here is an example of why you should be friends with javascript.
JSFiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/juc7Q/1/
HTML
You're feeling toward Javascript
<select name="friends" id="friends">
<option value="love">I love JS</option>
<option value="weird">JS is weird</option>
<option value="misunderstood">Are we speaking the same language?</option>
</select>
<button id="selectWeird">Keep JS Weird</button>
<div>
<input type="checkbox" id="we_friends"> - Friends?
</div>
JavaScript
//Select this using js
var list = document.getElementById('friends');
var cb = document.getElementById('we_friends');
//Add event when change happens
list.onchange = function () {
var value = list.value;
if(value == 'love') {
alert('I knew you would come around');
cb.setAttribute('checked', '');
} else if(value == 'weird') {
alert('And I like being weird :-)!!');
cb.removeAttribute('checked');
} else {
alert('And you think I understand you?');
cb.removeAttribute('checked');
}
}
//Change to 'Weird' when I click on it
var btn = document.getElementById('selectWeird');
btn.onclick = function () {
list.options.selectedIndex = 1;
}