Your description of your HTML isn't very clear, but none the less this could work:
$("selector for header checkboxes").click(function() { var chk = this; $("input[id^='" + chk.id + "_item']").each(function() { this.checked = chk.checked; }); }) On Mar 25, 12:12 pm, Andy <adharb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a table where the header has check boxes so if you click on > that, it will select all of the other checkboxes in that row. The > issue I have, it's not a select all checkboxes, but ones that have a > specific naming convention. Example. If my header is named > ckb_category1 I need to be able to find all checkboxes that are in > that column that have naming like ckb_category1_item1. Then each row > following would have a different item id, but keep the category1 the > same. Is there a pattern I can use that would work for this? > > Thanks!