Check or uncheck checkbox in JavaScript

Today, we will learn how to check or uncheck checkbox in JavaScript. We will show all selected checkboxes using PHP as well.

When you have a list of data, sometimes, you want to easily check all or uncheck all of them. And then process those selected/checked data by getting their values first.

Today we’re going to do something like what we’re using in GMail or YahooMail.

  1. Check or Uncheck All Checkboxes in a form (using jQuery).
  2. Get the selected checkboxes values when the form is submitted (using PHP).
Check or Uncheck Checkboxes with jQuery And Get Selected with PHP

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Step 1: Create index.html and put the following code. The code below will show an HTML form with checkbox options.

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Check and Uncheck All</title>
    </head>
<body>
 
<div style='margin: 10px'><input type='checkbox' id='checker' />Check/Uncheck All</div>
 
<form action='index.php' method='post'>
<div style='margin: 10px'>
    <input type='checkbox' name='emotions[]' class='checkboxes' value='Happy' />Happy
    <input type='checkbox' name='emotions[]' class='checkboxes' value='Sad' />Sad
    <input type='checkbox' name='emotions[]' class='checkboxes' value='Excited' />Excited
    <input type='checkbox' name='emotions[]' class='checkboxes' value='Scared' />Scared
</div>
<div style='margin: 10px'>
    <input type='hidden' name='action' value='get_values' />
    <input type='submit' value='Submit Selected' />
</div>
<div style='margin: 10px'>
<?php
// PHP code will be here
?>
</div>
</form>
 
<!-- jQuery script will be here -->
 
</body>
</html>

Step 2: Replace "PHP code will be here" line above with the following code. The code below will show you the selected checkbox options when the form was submitted.

//Defining indexes
empty($_POST['action']) ? $action = '' : $action = $_POST['action'];
empty($_POST['emotions']) ? $emotions = '' : $emotions = $_POST['emotions'];
 
if( $action == 'get_values'){
    if(!empty($emotions)){ //check if user ticked any checkbox
        foreach($emotions as $keys => $values){
            echo "<div>$values</div>";
        }
    }else{
        echo "Please select emotions.";
    }
}

Step 3: Replace "jQuery script will be here" line above with the following code. The code below will check or un-check the checkbox options in the form.

<script type='text/javascript' src='js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $( '#checker' ).click(function(){
            $( '.checkboxes' ).attr( 'checked', $( this ).is( ':checked' ) );
        });
    });
</script>

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