I have multiple checkboxes in a form. Based on clicking those checkboxes, I show a div section. But if I uncheck even one checkbox, that div section gets hidden. How do I make sure that div section is hidden only if all checkboxes are unchecked. Crude way can be to write my own 'display' method which will check if all checkboxes are unchecked and then hide the div section. Any easier solution??
I have multiple checkboxes in a form. Based on clicking those checkboxes, I show a div section. But if I uncheck even one checkbox, that div section gets hidden. How do I make sure that div section is hidden only if all checkboxes are unchecked. Crude way can be to write my own 'display' method which will check if all checkboxes are unchecked and then hide the div section. Any easier solution??
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Reset to default 3HTML:
<input type="checkbox" class="group" name="check1">
<input type="checkbox" class="group" name="check2">
<input type="checkbox" class="group" name="check3">
<input type="checkbox" class="group" name="check4">
jQuery:
$(function() {
var $checks = $('input:checkbox.group');
$checks.click(function() {
if($checks.filter(':checked').length == 0) {
$('#div').hide();
} else {
$('#div').show();
}
});
});
The following code will show the div if one or more checkboxes has been checked:
jQuery
Version 1:
$("input[name='mycheckboxes']").change(function() {
$("#showme").toggle($("input[name='mycheckboxes']:checked").length>0);
});
Version 2 (more efficient):
var MyCheckboxes=$("input[name='mycheckboxes']");
MyCheckboxes.change(function() {
$("#showme").toggle(MyCheckboxes.is(":checked"));
});
HTML
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckboxes" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckboxes" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckboxes" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckboxes" />
<div id="showme" style="display: none">Show me</div>
Code in action (Version 1).
Code in action (Version 2).
--- Different Checkbox Names Version ---
For different named checkboxes, wrap them in a DIV with an identifier. E.g.
jQuery
var MyCheckboxes=$("#checkboxgroup :checkbox");
MyCheckboxes.change(function() {
$("#showme").toggle(MyCheckboxes.is(":checked"));
});
HTML
<div id="checkboxgroup">
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox2" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox3" />
<input type="checkbox" name="mycheckbox4" />
</div>
<div id="showme" style="display: none">Show me</div>
This code in action.
Not really, you need Javascript for this one... Or maybe... Let's say:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#input_container > input + input + input + div {display:none}
#input_container > input:checked + input:checked + input:checked + div {display:block}
</style>
</head>
<div id="input_container">
<input type="checkbox">blah1
<input type="checkbox">blah2
<input type="checkbox">blah3
<div>To show/hide</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I'd create a function that uses a variable that tracks the number of checkboxes checked:
var numberOfChecks = 0;
function display(ev) {
var e = ev||window.event;
if (this.checked) {
numberOfChecks++;
} else {
numberOfChecks--;
}
if (!numberOfChecks) {
//hide div code
} else {
//display div code
}
}
Use that function for each onClick event for every checkbox. In the ideal world this would be done inside some initialization function so that numberOfChecks and display aren't in the global namespace.
Plain Javascript:
HTML
<div id="checkboxes">
<input type="checkbox" name="check1">
<input type="checkbox" name="check2">
<input type="checkbox" name="check3">
<input type="checkbox" name="check4">
</div>
<div id="hiddendiv"><!-- more stuff --></div>
Javascript
(function() { //Create clousre to hide the checked variable
var checked = 0;
var inputs = document.getElementById('checkboxes').getElementsByTagName('input');
for (var i=0, l=inputs.length; i<l; i++) {
if (inputs[i].type == 'checkbox') {
if (inputs[i].checked) checked++; //Count checkboxes that might be checked on page load
inputs[i].onchange = function() {
checked += this.checked ? 1 : -1;
var hiddendiv = document.getElementById('hiddendiv');
if (!checked) hiddendiv.style.display = "none";
else hiddendiv.style.display = "";
};
}
}
}());
The other option is to simply iterate through each checkbox every time the change event is fired rather than relying on counting, which is probably more error prone. Obviously jQuery is more concise, but a little verbosity never hurt anyone.
function toggleCheckbox(id) {
if ($("input[id=" + id + "]").is(':checked')) {
$( "#"+id ).prop( "checked", false );
} else {
$( "#"+id ).prop( "checked", true );
}
}
Just pass the id of your checkbox