Question

I have been searching for the solution for this for a while so I hope I can get some help now. I am attempting to figure out whether a programmatically added checkbox is checked using jquery. The HTML code of the checkbox is below:

<td>
   <input type="checkbox" name='ismanual' id='ismanual' class="checkbox">
</td>

And I am doing it using the following jquery code:

var ismanual = document.getElementById("ismanual").val();

I have attempted using #ismanual as the selector, but that didn’t help. Any idea where I have gone wrong?

Answer 1

If you’re using document.getElementById("ismanual") you should use .checked instead of .val()…

var ismanual = document.getElementById("ismanual").checked;

For jQuery use…

var ismanual = $("#ismanual").is(':checked')