Correct me if I am wrong but I believe :checked works on checkboxes
only, hence
$(":checked") is sufficient.
On Dec 31, 7:59 am, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> not sure, but this works, too:
>
> $(":checkbox[checked]")
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Andy Fish wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was trying to select for checked checkboxes so I tried
> > $(":checkbox[checked=true]")
>
> > this never returns anything, even though if I select all checkboxes I
> > can test "this.checked" for each one and it returns true/false as
> > appropriate.
>
> > I now understand that I can to :checkbox:checked, but I don't
> > understand why my original approach doesn't work, since clearly each
> > checkbox has an attribute 'checked' which has the value true or false.
>
> > Andy
