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in Getting Started • 9 years ago

Hi,

I'm reasonably new to jquery, so this might be a result of me misunderstanding the proper usage but...

When I try to select all checked checkboxes with a certain name, I always end up with no selected elements:

$("[name=test",$(":checked")) or $("[name=test").find(":checked")

Can anybody confirm if 1) I'm using this code correctly and 2) if this code indeed doesn't work like it should?

I'm running jquery version 1.71 (latest at time of writing) and am testing on IE8 in strict mode.

Thanks!

Replies(2)

9 years ago

You're missing the closing square bracket "]" in both of your examples.
This will do what you need:

Your first example didn't work because it is not in the correct form for selector, your second wont work because find() is used for descendants.

Dave

9 years ago

My bad...

Thank you!