Hi, I'm rewriting some old code to use jQuery now, and I can figure out why this isn't working and would love some help. I used to create a checkbox DOM element and assign a function object to the onlick handler:
var theElement = document.createElement( 'input' ); theElement.type = "checkbox"; theElement.onclick = checkCallback; Then later I want to invoke that handler if some state is true, put that in using jQuery a while ago: $(theRow).find(':input[type="checkbox"]').click(); When I did this the onclick handler was called and set up some presentation based on the checkbox being 'checked'. In the handler the value of event.target.checked was true. When the handler finished, the UI presentation was a checked box. Well, now I'm changing the HTML around so much that I'm rewriting it with jQuery methods. So now I create the checkbox (and its enclosing table cell) with an HTML string: $row.append( $('<td class="'+ className +'" align="middle">' +'<input type="checkbox" name="iScsiTargetVolume" id="' foo'"/ >' +'</td>') ); And later set the onclick handler and TRY to check the box: $row.find(':checkbox').click( checkCallback ); if ( test ) { $row.find(':checkbox').click(); } However, in the click handler when I get the event.target.checked is ALWAYS false for the above call. All is as expected when the handler is called based on a real UI click. I've been playing with this for a couple of hours and can't figure out what is up. Thoughts anyone? thanks, Chuck