Could anyone help me fix this xpath expression?

Question

Hi all..

Time for another silly question :)

I got some tables in a xhtml-document with class="mytable" and inside those tables all sorts of elements, including <input type="checkbox"/> .. Now, I need to select all these checkboxes. I figured I'd use jquery with xpath, but my expression doesnt seem to work.

So far, I've come up with

$("table[class=mytable]//input[type=checkbox]")

.. but that doesnt seem to work :( Any help is appreciated :)

Answer 1

$("table[@class='mytable']//input[@type='checkbox']")

I think you need the @ symbol to target attributes and single quotes around the attribute values

Answer 2

I would use Css selectors not xpath

$('table.mytable input[type="checkbox"]')