Question

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <input type="checkbox" id="check1" value="radio" />
  <label>left</label>
  <input type="checkbox" id="check2" value="radio2" />
  <label>right</label>
</form>

I would like to know if the checkbox is checked or not everytime someone clicks on it and then set a variable to the value yes.

if ($('#check1').attr('checked'); ){
var check1 = 'yes'; 
else 
var check1 ='no'
}

this is what I have so far and it doesn’t work
How do I return the value

Answer 1

You don’t need an if-statement to do that. You can use .is(":checked") which will return true if checked and false if not. Assign that value directly to your variable instead of using an if-statement:

var check1;
$("#check1").click(function(){
   check1 = $(this).is(":checked");
});