I have a list of checkboxes:
<input type="checkbox" name="answer" id="id_1' value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="answer" id="id_2' value="2" />
...
<input type="checkbox" name="answer" id="id_n' value="n" />
I can collect all the values of checked checkboxes; my question is how can get all the values of unchecked checkboxes? I tried:
$("input:unchecked").val();
to get an unchecked checkbox's value, but I got:
Syntax error, unrecognized expression: unchecked.
can anybody shed a light on this issue? thank you!
As the error message states, jQuery does not include a :unchecked
selector.
Instead, you need to invert the :checked
selector:
$("input:checkbox:not(:checked)")
$("input:checkbox:not(:checked)")
Will get you the unchecked boxes.
$.extend($.expr[':'], {
unchecked: function (obj) {
return ((obj.type == 'checkbox' || obj.type == 'radio') && !$(obj).is(':checked'));
}
});
$("input:unchecked")
$("input[type='checkbox']:not(:checked):not('\#chkAll\')").map(function () {
var a = "";
if (this.name != "chkAll") {
a = this.name + "|off";
}
return a;
}).get().join();
This will retrieve all unchecked checkboxes and exclude the "chkAll" checkbox that I use to check|uncheck all checkboxes. Since I want to know what value I'm passing to the database I set these to off, since the checkboxes give me a value of on.
//looking for unchecked checkboxes, but don’t include the checkbox all that checks or unchecks all checkboxes
//.map - Pass each element in the current matched set through a function, producing a new jQuery object containing the return values.
//.get - Retrieve the DOM elements matched by the jQuery object.
//.join - (javascript) joins the elements of an array into a string, and returns the string.The elements will be separated by a specified separator. The default separator is comma (,).
You can use like this :
$(":checkbox:not(:checked)")
Also it can be achieved with pure js in such a way:
var matches = document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]:not(:checked)');
$(".clscss-row").each(function () {
if ($(this).find(".po-checkbox").not(":checked")) {
// enter your code here
} });