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Asked: 2026-05-20T21:45:16+00:00

I am trying to remove a checkbox client-side. Works fine in Chrome. Can’t get

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I am trying to remove a checkbox client-side. Works fine in Chrome. Can’t get it to go in IE8.

document.getElementById('CheckBox3').style.display = 'none';

I’ve also tried style.visibility = 'hidden', style.visibility = 'collapse', as well as disabling the CheckBox. I am able to remove a label to the left of it no problem — all these means work, but none work for removing the CheckBox.

Any ideas?

<td class="DatapointsCheckbox">
    <asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox3" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" />
</td>

There’s the mark-up. 

.DatapointsCheckbox
{
    width: 40px;
}

That’s the CSS…

Image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYQJN.png
HTML Mark-Up: https://i.stack.imgur.com/3cinf.png (SS of relevant markup, at least)

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  1. Editorial Team

    First, it should be:

    document.getElementById('<%= CheckBox3.ClientID %>').style.display = 'none';

    In ASP.Net the client ID of the control is compiled at run time and will look like parent1_parent2_parent3_theControl. Using “ClientID” will give you the full ID of the control. If you don’t use that I wouldn’t expect it to work in any browser, ever.

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