check marking all the checkbox using jquery on click of a button

Question

This is how my table structure looks,

 <table>
    <tbody>   
    <tr>
    <td id="**SelectCheckBox**" class="helpBod">
    <input id="TimeSheetWebUserControl1_TimeSheetRepeater_ctl01_CheckBox0" type="checkbox"  name="TimeSheetWebUserControl1$TimeSheetRepeater$ctl01$CheckBox0"/>
    </td>
    <td>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td id="**SelectCheckBox**" class="helpBod">
    <input id="TimeSheetWebUserControl1_TimeSheetRepeater_ctl02_CheckBox1" type="checkbox"  name="TimeSheetWebUserControl1$TimeSheetRepeater$ctl02$CheckBox1"/>
    </td>
   <td>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

I have a button SelectAll im going to call a jquery function to check mark all the checkbox

function look this

function jqCheckAll() {
        $("td#" + 'SelectCheckBox' + 'input:checkbox').attr('checked', true);

      }

problem is this will check mark only only checkbox what if i have 100 checkbox, i want to check mark all the this 100 checkbox on click of select all button.

Answer 1

First, I can't really tell what you mean by "SelectCheckBox"; you cannot give all your checkboxes the same "id" value.

To check all the checkboxes in all the "helpBod" td elements, just do this:

$('td.helpBod input:checkbox').attr('checked', true);

Answer 2

function jqCheckAll() {
    $("input:checkbox").attr('checked','checked');
}

Update, only checking in a single column:

Assuming your select_all button is inside the same td as the checkboxes, just do this:

$('td.helpBod .select_all').click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    $(this).closest('td.helpBod').find(':checkbox').attr('checked', 'checked');
});

Again, that assumes your HTML looks something like this (the select_all doesn't have to be a button):

<td class="helpBod" ... >
  <button class="select_all">Select All</button>
  <input type="checkbox" ... />
  <input type="checkbox" ... />
  <input type="checkbox" ... />
  <input type="checkbox" ... />
</td>

Answer 3

If I understand what youre asking the easiest way to do that would be

$('.helpBod input:checkbox').attr('checked','checked');

This only checks the ones you have that class on, so you wont affect other checkboxes you might have elsewhere.

Answer 4

@sameer, what you want to do is add a class to all the checkboxes you want checked. Here I added a class "checkall" to the checkboxes that will be checked.

<input type="button" name="checkit" id="checkit" value="Check All">

 <table>
    <tbody>   
    <tr>
    <td>
    <input type="checkbox" class="checkall" name="TimeSheetWebUserControl1$TimeSheetRepeater$ctl01$CheckBox0" id="TimeSheetWebUserControl1_TimeSheetRepeater_ctl01_CheckBox0" />
    </td>
    <td>
    <input type="checkbox" name="chk1" id="chk1" />
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>
    <input type="checkbox" class="checkall" name="TimeSheetWebUserControl1$TimeSheetRepeater$ctl02$CheckBox1" id="TimeSheetWebUserControl1_TimeSheetRepeater_ctl02_CheckBox1" />
    </td>
    <td>
   <input type="checkbox" name="chk2" id="chk2" />
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

The jQuery is then simple.

$('#checkit').click(function() {
    $('input:checkbox.checkall').attr('checked','checked');
    return false;
});