Question

I have a number of checkboxes formatted like so….

<input type="checkbox" name="mybox" value="box1">Box 1</input>
<input type="checkbox" name="mybox" value="box2">Box 2</input>
<input type="checkbox" name="mybox" value="box3">Box 3</input>
<input type="checkbox" name="mybox" value="box4">Box 4</input>
<input type="checkbox" name="mybox" value="box5">Box 5</input>

I am attempting to read in which boxes are ticked using javascript and save them as an array, I am using the following code….

  function handleNotifyButtonClick() {
    var type = $.trim($("input[@name='mybox']:checked").each(function()
    {
    add $(this).val() to your array;
    }));

But for some reason its not working, can someone help?

Answer 1

add $(this).val() to your array;

This is English, not JavaScript.

Try this:

var type = [];
$("input[name=mybox]:checked").each(function() {type.push(this.value)});