You've got issues elsewhere in your code that you don't show:
http://jsbin.com/ocode/edit
On Oct 1, 2:16 pm, "bob.nel...@gmail.com" <bob.nel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a bunch of checkboxes that I want to have checked when the user
> checks a master checkbox. I've done this before and reused the working
> code, but changed some DOM id's. The problem is its not working. I've
> narrowed it down to is(':checked') as always returning false. Again,
> I've reused working code from within the same site. The only thing
> different are the id's. Here is my code:
>
> HTML for master checkbox (within a container with id 'msgsInbox'):
> <input id="msgCheckAllInbox" name="msgCheckboxAllInbox"
> type="checkbox" value="" onclick="checkAllMsgsIn()" tabindex="-1" />
>
> HTML for series of checkboxes:
> <input id="msg2531cb" name="msgCheckbox[]" class="messageCheckbox"
> type="checkbox" value="2531" tabindex="-1" />
> <input id="msg2532cb" name="msgCheckbox[]" class="messageCheckbox"
> type="checkbox" value="2532" tabindex="-1" />
> ETC...
>
> Javascript for master checkbox onclick function:
> function checkAllMsgsIn() {
> alert($('#msgCheckAllInbox').is(":checked")); //Used to debug this
> problem, will always returns false
> $('#msgsInbox input.messageCheckbox').attr('checked', $
> ('#msgCheckAllInbox').is(':checked'));
> //$('#msgsInbox input.messageCheckbox').attr('checked',
> true); //This will check all the boxes, so my jquery identifier is
> correct.
>
> }
>
> I've search through my entire site to make sure there isn't another
> element named 'msgCheckAllInbox'. There is not. So I'm stumped with
> this one.
>
> Any ideas? Thank you in advance for any help.
