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Two checkboxes acting as one

I have two checkboxes on a page and I want them to act as only one. For example, I select one, and the other is selected automatically, and vice-versa.
I've managed to select both of them at once, but I can't seem to figure out a way to deselect them at once.
And what's bothering me the most, is that it's probably a super simple line of code that I'm simply not remembering.
Is there a way to do this?

Is this what you're looking for?
$(".test").change(function () {
$(".test").attr("checked", this.checked);
});
<input type='checkbox' class='test'>A<br />
<input type='checkbox' class='test'>B<br />

Here is a solution in pure javascript:
// Select all checkboxes using `.checkbox` class
var checkboxes = document.querySelectorAll('.checkbox');
// Loop through the checkboxes list
checkboxes.forEach(function (checkbox) {
// Then, add `change` event on each checkbox
checkbox.addEventListener('change', function(event) {
// When the change event fire,
// Loop through the checkboxes list and update the value
checkboxes.forEach(function (checkbox) {
checkbox.checked = event.target.checked;
});
});
});
<label><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox"> Item 1</label>
<br>
<label><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox"> Item 2</label>

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#check_one').change(function() {
$('#check_two').prop('checked', $('#check_one').prop('checked'));
});
$('#check_two').change(function() {
$('#check_one').prop('checked', $('#check_two').prop('checked'));
});
});
<form>
<label>Simple checkbox</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="check_one" />
<label>Complicated checkbox</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="check_two" />
</form>
Assuming you have two checkboxes named differently but working in concert, this code would work

html:
<input type="checkbox" id="1" class="handleAsOne">
<input type="checkbox" id="2" class="handleAsOne">
javascript (jquery):
$('.handleAsOne').on('change'){
$('.handleAsOne').prop('checked', false);
$(this).prop('checked', true);
}
if i understood your question correctly you are looking for something like this.

Checkbox dependencies in jquery

I'm trying to implement dependencies between various checkboxes, however, I've a simple scenario that if and checkbox is unchecked, other checkboxes should also be unchecked in ascending order.
Let the first checkbox has id=1, and I've total 5 checkboxes, if the first checkbox is unchecked, other check boxes that have id's greater than the current should also be unchecked, i.e. id=2, id=3, id=4, id=5 should also be unchecked and so on.
My Code:
<input type="checkbox" id="1" class="cb">
<input type="checkbox" id="2" class="cb">
<input type="checkbox" id="3" class="cb">
<input type="checkbox" id="4" class="cb">
<input type="checkbox" id="5" class="cb">
$('input.CB').on('change', function() {
$('input.CB').not(this).prop('checked', false);
});

If i understood your question correctly you're looking for something like this:
lowest_unchecked = false;
$('.cb').on('change', function(){
$('.cb').each(function(){
if( !$(this).prop( 'checked' ) ){
lowest_unchecked = $(this).attr('id');
}
if( lowest_unchecked !== false && lowest_unchecked < $(this).attr('id') ){
$(this).prop('checked', false);
}
});
});
it could be made more efficient by not making it check id's smaller then the one that a change occurs at, but this will probably do just fine for your needs.
Edit: added fiddle on request: https://jsfiddle.net/93o1kkjn/1/

Need a way to integrate an Invert function(Check All/Uncheck All) through radio buttons - for the Checkbox group

Am relatively new to what I am doing here. I am just putting together stuff with what I find here and other open resources.
The problem I am having is - With the current setup a person can choose a radio button and check a couple boxes and goto the other radio button option and choose boxes under that. I am trying to get the Checkboxes to be All Checked when someone selects the radion option and UncheckALL when the person chooses another option on the radio button group.
So if I select option 'a' under 'GENERAL' and then goto 'DETAILED' - 'a' should be unchecked.
Heres the code I am using in JFiddle
HTML:
<div id="RadioWidget">
<label><input type="radio" name="chkboxs" value="General" />General Clean</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="chkboxs" value="Detailed" />Detailed Clean</label>
<label><input type="radio" name="chkboxs" value="Commercial" />Commercial Clean</label>
</div>
<div id="General" class="desc">
<p class="maintextBlue">General
<label><input type="checkbox" name="GeneralOptn[]" value="a" />a</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="GeneralOptn[]" value="b" />b</label>
</p>
</div>
<div id="Detailed" class="desc">
<p class="maintextBlue">Detailed
<label><input type="checkbox" name="DetailedOptn[]" value="a" />a</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="DetailedOptn[]" value="b" />b</label>
</p>
</div>
<div id="Commercial" class="desc">
<p class="maintextBlue">Commercial
<label><input type="checkbox" name="CommercialOptn[]" value="a" />a</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="CommercialOptn[]" value="b" />b</label>
</p>
</div>
Jscript:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("div.desc").hide();
$("input[name$='chkboxs']").click(function() {
var test = $(this).val();
$("div.desc").hide();
$("#" + test).show();
});
});
This was a piece of script I found that inverts the checkbox state. But not sure how to integrate it to the radio button. this snippet was working off a onClick() fn for a button.
$("A[href='#invert_selection']").click( function() {
$("#" + $(this).attr('rel') + " INPUT[type='checkbox']").each( function() {
$(this).attr('checked', !$(this).attr('checked'));
});
return false;
});
Any help is much appreciated...

this requires you to add IDS to your input fields... but it would work.
If you want to control multiple input fields you can always uses classes to..
jQuery("#generalA").click(function(){
if(jQuery(this).is(':checked')){
// is checked do some stuff if you want
}else{
// is mot checked uncheck the checkbox with an ID of #detailedA
jQuery('#detailedA').prop('checked', false);
}
return false;
});

The above response by AndrewMac helped.
I just had to figure out a way it helped my existing setup.
Below is the small addition I did to get the desired setup - this way it actually disables all the unnecessary inputs thereby eliminated from the final send out of the form.
$(document).ready(function() {
$("div.desc").hide().find('input, textarea').prop('disabled', true);;
$("input[name$='chkboxs']").click(function() {
var test = $(this).val();
$("div.desc").hide().find('input, textarea').prop('disabled', true);;
$("#" + test).show().find('input, textarea').prop('disabled', false);;
});
});
I have also updated the same on my fiddle page. Fiddle
Thanks for the help AndrewMac - Sorry for the long time to post this response/answer.

selecting all or some parent / child checkboxes in a styled format

First of all: http://jsfiddle.net/1q5st19f/
I have a checkbox group where if all the child checkboxes (countries) are checked, the parent checkbox (region) becomes checked as well. Likewise, if the parent checkbox is unchecked, the child checkboxes should be unchecked, too. I found a script that worked perfectly until I styled the checkboxes with prettyCheckable (from http://arthurgouveia.com/prettyCheckable/).
If I remove prettyCheckable, it works. If I add it, it's correctly styled but won't work anymore. What am I doing wrong? I tried to rename the classes but that didn't work either.
The basic markup is like
<fieldset>
<input type="checkbox" class="parentCheckBox" /> Africa
<div class="content">
<input type="checkbox" value="1" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label=""> Algeria<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="2" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label=""> Angola<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="3" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label=""> Benin<br />
</div>
</fieldset>

prettyCheckable made this a bit tricky. It says in the documentation that you can use $('#myInput').prettyCheckable('check'); but I could not get it to work. So I just used the anchors class checked instead to determine if the checkbox is checked.
This may not be the most pretty implementation but it's working. You should make the code more modular an maybe reconsider some of the choices I quickly made.
First I removed the childCheckBox from the HTML and initialized prettyCheckable with options, so I could get the class to the wrapper div:
// make childCheckboxes prettyCheckable
$('.content input:checkbox').each(function () {
$(this).prettyCheckable({
// add this class to the wrapper div created by prettyCheckable
customClass: "childCheckBox"
});
});
Same with the parentCheckbox:
// make parentCheckBox prettyCheckable
$('input:checkbox.parentInput').prettyCheckable({
// add this class to the wrapper div created by prettyCheckable
customClass: "parentCheckBox"
});
I also changed childCheckBox click event to do the functionality you wanted
//clicking the last unchecked or checked checkbox should check or uncheck the parent checkbox
$('.childCheckBox').click(function () {
var $parentAnchor = $(this).parents('fieldset:eq(0)').find('.parentCheckBox a');
var $childAnchors = $(this).parents('fieldset:eq(0)').find('.childCheckBox a');
var $thisAnchor = $(this).find('a');
var parentIsChecked = $parentAnchor.hasClass('checked');
var thisIsChecked = $thisAnchor.hasClass('checked');
var isLastOne = true;
// loop through all childCheckBoxes and determine if this is the last one checked or unchecked
$childAnchors.each(function (index) {
if ((!thisIsChecked && $(this).hasClass('checked'))
|| (thisIsChecked && !$(this).hasClass('checked'))) {
isLastOne = false;
}
});
// if the childCheckBox was the last one, change the state of the parentCheckBox
if (isLastOne && thisIsChecked) {
$parentAnchor.addClass('checked');
} else if (isLastOne && !thisIsChecked) {
$parentAnchor.removeClass('checked');
}
});
I was pretty tired when forking this, so I hope I didn't do any stupid mistakes. If you have any questions about the code, please ask.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/1q5st19f/17/

This took me forever to debug. There were a number of issues most importantly of which was that you are using a very backlevel version of prettyCheckable. However, after changing to the latest level and starting again, I have a fully working solution for you. See this jsFiddle.
I started again from the beginning but here is the code:
HTML
<fieldset>
<div class="group">
<input type="checkbox" class="parentCheckBox" data-label="Africa"/>
<div class="content">
<input type="checkbox" value="1" class="childCheckBox" data-label="Algeria" />
<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="2" class="childCheckBox" data-label="Angola" />
<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="3" class="childCheckBox" data-label="Benin" />
<br />
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
JavaScript
$(function () {
$('input:checkbox').each(function () {
$(this).prettyCheckable();
});
$(".parentCheckBox").change(function (e) {
var checked = $(this).prop("checked");
$(".childCheckBox", $(this).closest(".group")).each(function (i, e) {
$(e).prettyCheckable(checked?"check":"uncheck");
});
});
$(".childCheckBox").change(function(e) {
var checkedCount = unCheckedCount = 0;
$(e.currentTarget).closest(".content").find(".childCheckBox").each(function(i,e2) {
if ($(e2).prop("checked")) {
checkedCount++;
} else {
unCheckedCount++;
}
});
if (unCheckedCount == 0) {
$(e.currentTarget).closest(".group").find(".parentCheckBox").prettyCheckable("check");
} else {
$(e.currentTarget).closest(".group").find(".parentCheckBox").prettyCheckable("uncheck");
}
});
});
I'll be delighted to answer any questions you may have.
The semantics of checking or unchecking all children could have an alternate solution shown in this jsFiddle. It talks to when the parent checkbox should be checked or unchecked as a function of the children.

What prettyCheckable does behind the scenes, is it hides the checkboxes and adds an a tag to the page, and updates the hidden checkboxes when the a tag is clicked. The a tag also gets a style of checked when the checkbox is checked. There appears to be a bug though, that the checked class is not added to or removed from the a tag when the state of the checkboxes is manipulated through code. Anyway, your JavaScript was correctly updating the state of the checkboxes, but prettyCheckable wasn't detecting that and failed to update its classes.
Anyway, I rewrote your script so all the logic is handled in 1 event handler, and I included a work-around for the prettyCheckable bug, but I left your HTML alone so you should only have to replace your JavaScript code. See below for a runnable example:
$('input:checkbox').prettyCheckable();
$("input:checkbox").on("change", function() {
var checkbox = $(this);
var parent = checkbox.closest("fieldset");
if (checkbox.hasClass("parentCheckBox")) {
//this is a parent, check or uncheck all children
var isChecked = checkbox.is(":checked");
//add checked attribute in the DOM and add the class for prettyCheckable on all children
parent.find("input.childCheckBox:checkbox").prop("checked", isChecked).each(function() {
if (isChecked)
$(this).next("a").addClass('checked');
else
$(this).next("a").removeClass('checked');
});
} else {
//this is a child, check or uncheck the parent
var parentCheckbox = parent.find("input.parentCheckBox:checkbox");
var isChecked = !parent.find("input.childCheckBox:checkbox").get().some(function(item) {
return !$(item).is(":checked");
});
//add the checked attribute to the dom and add the class for prettyCheckable
parentCheckbox.prop("checked", isChecked);
if (isChecked)
parentCheckbox.next("a").addClass('checked');
else
parentCheckbox.next("a").removeClass('checked');
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://qfuse.com/js/utils/prettyCheckable/prettyCheckable.js"></script>
<link href="http://arthurgouveia.com/prettyCheckable/js/prettyCheckable/dist/prettyCheckable.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<fieldset>
<input type="checkbox" class="parentCheckBox" /> Africa
<div class="content">
<input type="checkbox" value="1" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label="" /> Algeria<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="2" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label="" /> Angola<br />
<input type="checkbox" value="3" name="cntrs[]" class="childCheckBox" data-label="" /> Benin<br />
</div>
</fieldset>

CheckAll/UncheckAll checkbox with jQuery

I have made a check-box checkall/uncheckall.
HTML
<div> Using Check all function </div>
<div id="selectCheckBox">
<input type="checkbox" class="all" onchange="checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','true');" />Select All
<input type="checkbox" class="check" onchange="checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','false');" />Check Box 1
<input type="checkbox" class="check" onchange="checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','false');" />Check Box 2
<input type="checkbox" class="check" onchange="checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','false');" />Check Box 3
<input type="checkbox" class="check" onchange="checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','false');" />Check Box 4
</div>
main.js
function checkAll(parentId,allClass,checkboxClass,allChecked){
checkboxAll = $('#'+parentId+' .'+allClass);
otherCheckBox = $('#'+parentId+' .'+checkboxClass);
checkedCheckBox = otherCheckBox.filter($('input[type=checkbox]:checked'));
if(allChecked=='false'){
if(otherCheckBox.size()==checkedCheckBox.size()){
checkboxAll.attr('checked',true);
}else{
checkboxAll.attr('checked',false);
}
}else{
if(checkboxAll.attr('checked')){
otherCheckBox.attr('checked',true);
}else{
otherCheckBox.attr('checked',false);
}
}
}
It works fine. But get bulky when I have whole lot of checkboxes. I want to do same work by using jQuery rather than putting onchange on each checkbox. I tried different sort of things but couldnot work. I tried following one:
$('.check input[type="checkbox"]').change(function(e){
checkAll('selectCheckBox','all','check','true');
});
to do same work as onchange event but didnot work. Where do I went wrong.

I think you just need this: You do not need to pass all the arguments and have the inline onchange event attached to it. You can simplify your code.
$(function () {
$('input[type="checkbox"]').change(function (e) {
if(this.className == 'all')
{
$('.check').prop('checked', this.checked); //Toggle all checkboxes based on `.all` check box check status
}
else
{
$('.all').prop('checked', $('.check:checked').length == $('.check').length); // toggle all check box based on whether all others are checked or not.
}
});
});
Demo

Your selector is wrong:
.check input[type="checkbox"]
Above selects any input of type checkbox that has the ancestor with class .check. It'll match this:
<div class="check">
<input type="checkbox".../>
</div>
it should be:
input.check[type="checkbox"]

You closed the string here $('.check input[type='checkbox']') instead, you should use double quotes $('.check input[type="checkbox"]')