Hello,
I'm working on an application wherein I have a checkbox that triggers
an ajax call to update a database. Should the database operation
fail, I want the checkbox to retain its old state. I'm having trouble
making this work. The closest I've gotten is that if I bind the
'click' event of the checkbox and call event.preventDefault() in the
handler, the box changes state then reverts once the handler exits.
I'm testing using an alert() in the handler rather than the actual
ajax call. If I bind to the change event instead, the box changes and
stays changed, despite the preventDefault call. Perhaps also relevant
is that getting the box's state (via $("#mycheckbox").attr('checked'))
within the handler gives the new state.
Any ideas on how to get complete control over whether the box gets
checked or not, or even just insight into what's going on here in
terms of the event model. I am new to jquery and javascript in
general, so I'm bringing a lot of ignorance to the table. Thanks in
advance.
