jQuery to Select Multiple CheckBox

In this first jQuery tutorial we will develop a simple program that retrieves the value of selected checkbox from server and displays on the user browser.

jQuery to Select Multiple CheckBox

jQuery to Select Multiple CheckBox

     

In this first jQuery tutorial we will develop a simple program that retrieves the value of selected checkbox from server and displays on the user browser. In this example we will be calling a server side PHP script . You can easily replace PHP with JSP, or ASP program.

Steps to develop the Select Multiple CheckBox  program

Step 1:

Create php file to that prints the CheckBox data . Here is the code of PHP script (postData.php).

<?php
if($_POST['checkbox_name']!="")
{
echo "You have selected: ";
foreach ($_POST['checkbox_name'] as $checkbox_name)
{

$checkbox_name= htmlspecialchars($checkbox_name, ENT_QUOTES);
echo $checkbox_name, ' ', "\n";
}
}
else
{
echo "Please select the checkbox."; 
}
?>

Step 2:

Write HTML page to call the postData.php . Create a new file (checkBoxSelect.php) and add the following code into it:

<html>
<head>
<title>JQuery Tutorial: C<title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("#submit").click(
function()
{
var query_string = '';

$("input[@type='checkbox'][@name='checkbox_name']").each(
function()
{
if(this.checked)
{
query_string += "&checkbox_name[]=" + this.value;
}
});

$.ajax(
{
type: "POST",
url: "postdata.php",
data: "id=1" + query_string,
success: 
function(t) 
{
$("div#content").empty().append(t);
},
error:
function()
{
$("div#content").append("An error occured during processing");
}
}); 
});
});
</script>

<span style="color:#00000;font-weight:bold">Select Your Languages
</span><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_name" value="English">
English<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_name" value="Hindi">
Hindi<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_name" value="French">
French<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox_name" value="Japanese">
Japanese<br>

<input type="submit" id="submit" value='Submit' />

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<div id="content">The results will show up here.</div>
</body>
</html>

Program explanation:

The following code includes the jQuery JavaScript library file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>

The code

$("#submit").click

url : "
postData.php",
...

makes ajax call to postData.php file.

Following code intercepts the ajax call success and then sets the data into "content" div:

If return success then it OutPut 

When you run the program in browser it will look like following screen shot:

 

Check online demo of the application

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