Question

I am trying to tick a checkbox which is inside the first cell of a tablerow.

var checkbox = $(this).find("td").eq(0);

returns an [Object object] but when I use the html() function it is clear that it returns only the code for the input element.

Is it possible to cast the variable checkbox so that I can then check it?

Answer 1

You’re getting [Object object] because .eq() returns a jQuery object.

You’re getting HTML code with .html() because that is a method of the jQuery object, which returns the HTML inside an element (similar to raw Javascript .innerHTML()).

To get the raw HTML DOM element from a jQuery object, you can try something like:

var rawDomElement = $(this).find('td')[0];

EDIT

But if you want to check a checkbox, you can try calling .attr('checked', true) on a jQuery object representing the checkbox DOM element.