How to check whether a checkbox is checked in jQue

Question

I need to check the checked property of a checkbox and perform an action based on the checked property using jQuery.

For example, if the age checkbox is checked, then I need to show a textbox to enter age, else hide the textbox.

But the following code returns false by default:

if ($('#isAgeSelected').attr('checked'))
{
    $("#txtAge").show();
}
else
{
    $("#txtAge").hide();
}

How do I successfully query the checked property?

Answer 1

This is some different method to do the same thing:

$(document).ready(function (){

    $('#isAgeSelected').click(function() {
        // $("#txtAge").toggle(this.checked);

        // Using a pure CSS selector
        if ($(this.checked)) {
            alert('on check 1');
        };

        // Using jQuery's is() method
        if ($(this).is(':checked')) {
            alert('on checked 2');
        };

        //  // Using jQuery's filter() method
        if ($(this).filter(':checked')) {
            alert('on checked 3');
        };
    });
});

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" id="isAgeSelected"/>
<div id="txtAge" style="display:none">Age is something</div>

Answer 2

1) If your HTML markup is:

<input type="checkbox"  />

attr used:

$(element).attr("checked"); // Will give you undefined as initial value of checkbox is not set

If prop is used:

$(element).prop("checked"); // Will give you false whether or not initial value is set

2) If your HTML markup is:

 <input type="checkbox"  checked="checked" />// May be like this also  checked="true"

attr used:

$(element).attr("checked") // Will return checked whether it is checked="true"

Prop used:

$(element).prop("checked") // Will return true whether checked="checked"

Answer 3

This worked for me:

$get("isAgeSelected ").checked == true

Where isAgeSelected is the id of the control.

Also, @karim79's answer works fine. I am not sure what I missed at the time I tested it.

Note, this is answer uses Microsoft Ajax, not jQuery

Answer 4

You can use this code:

$('#isAgeSelected').click(function(){
   console.log(this.checked);
   if(this.checked == true) {
        $("#txtAge").show();
    } else {
       $("#txtAge").hide();
   }
});

Answer 5

Since jQuery 1.6, the behavior of jQuery.attr() has changed and users are encouraged not to use it to retrieve an element's checked state. Instead, you should use jQuery.prop():

$("#txtAge").toggle(
    $("#isAgeSelected").prop("checked") // For checked attribute it returns true/false;
                                        // Return value changes with checkbox state
);

Two other possibilities are:

$("#txtAge").get(0).checked
$("#txtAge").is(":checked")

Answer 6

The top answer didn't do it for me. This did though:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){

        $("#li_13").click(function(){
            if($("#agree").attr('checked')){
                $("#saveForm").fadeIn();
            }
            else
            {
                $("#saveForm").fadeOut();
            }
        });
    });
</script>

Basically when the element #li_13 is clicked, it checks if the element # agree (which is the checkbox) is checked by using the .attr('checked') function. If it is then fadeIn the #saveForm element, and if not fadeOut the saveForm element.