Jquery Toggle Checkbox

Question

So I have an issue. I'm trying to toggle checkboxes in order to add some css to the parent <tr>

This is what I have so far

 $('input[type=checkbox]').toggle(function(){

    $(this).parents('tr').addClass('selectCheckBox', 970);
},
function(){

    $(this).parents('tr').removeClass('selectCheckBox', 970);
});

However, the result of this is that the <tr> does receieve the selectCheckBox but the checkbox does not become checked. So I tried the following:

 $('input[type=checkbox]').toggle(function(){
    $(this).attr('checked',true);
    $(this).parents('tr').addClass('selectCheckBox', 970);
},
function(){
    $(this).attr('checked',false);
    $(this).parents('tr').removeClass('selectCheckBox', 970);
});

Once again, no luck.

I believe it has to do with how the checkbox id looks.

<input type="checkbox" name="select[]" id="select[]">

I then tried escaping the [] by using \\[\\] as I've used in the past, but no luck.

Is there a way to make the checkbox checked?

see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4177159/toggle-checkboxes-on-off — Mem Maina, Feb 22 '14 at 07:48

elclanrs · Answer 1 · 2012-12-19T01:02:44.173

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Try on change event. Also as I think toggle event is deprecated and addClass doesn't take a second parameter (unless you're using jQuery UI).

$('input[type=checkbox]').change(function() {
  $(this).parents('tr').toggleClass('selectCheckBox', $(this).is(':checked'));
});

edited Dec 19 '12 at 01:02

answered Dec 19 '12 at 00:54

elclanrs

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Awesome!! This worked perfectly. I thought of the change event, but didn't think it'd work! THe addClass has the second parameter to ease in the effect of the class. it fades it in. – Dimitri Dec 19 '12 at 00:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 00:56

There may be a way to optimize this a bit more:

$('input[type=checkbox]').on('click', function() {
    var $this = $(this);
    if ($this.is(':checked')) {
        $this.closest('tr').addClass('selectCheckbox');
    } else {
        $this.closest('tr').removeClass('selectCheckbox');
    }
});

JsFiddle

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '12 at 01:34

I figured it out. I needed to use toggleClass along with the rest of jQuery UI parameters to get the effect needed.

$('input[type=checkbox]').click(function(){
    $(this).parents('tr').toggleClass('selectCheckBox',  1000, "easeOutSine" );
});

// Here are the parameteres below
    .toggleClass( className [, switch ] [, duration ] [, easing ] [, complete ] )

Jquery Toggle Checkbox

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