Question

I would like to create an alert once too many check boxes have been checked.

Please see the setup here:

http://jsfiddle.net/wDbej/2/

At the moment – the alert keep returning 0 – rather than counting the checkboxes…

Any suggestions would be great thanks!

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/wDbej/6/ – move your variable inside the click function. The way you had it initialized the variable, but didn’t update the value on clicking the box.