Question

I have the following jQuery code to make my checkboxes act like radio buttons, so that only 1 of the 3 can be checked at a time.

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#testing input:checkbox").change(function(){
        var checkname = $(this).attr("name");
        $("input:checkbox[name='" + checkname + "']").removeAttr("checked");
        this.checked = true;
    });
});
</script>

The checkboxes are layed out like the following:

<input type="checkbox" id="testing" name="testing" value="B">
<input type="checkbox" id="testing" name="testing" value="I">
<input type="checkbox" id="testing" name="testing" value="A">

This works exactly how i want it to work, not a problem, except once i click one of the 3, i cant unclick it so that none of them are checked, this is what i want to happen, so along with being only able to click one at a time, im able to uncheck them completely.

Any help would be grand 🙂

Answer 1

Only run the code that unchecks the others if this has been checked.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/CX5Th/1/

$("#testing input:checkbox").change(function() {
    if( this.checked ) {
        var checkname = $(this).attr("name");
        $("input:checkbox[name='" + checkname + "']").removeAttr("checked");
        this.checked = true;
    }
});

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EDIT: Here’s a revision that prevents the newly checked box from being unchecked when you select the boxes with the same name. It uses not()^(docs) to exclude the current checkbox.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/CX5Th/2/

$("#testing input:checkbox").change(function() {
    if (this.checked) {
        var checkname = $(this).attr("name");
        $("input:checkbox[name='" + checkname + "']").not(this).removeAttr("checked");
    }
});