Select / Deselect all checkboxes using jQuery

Posted on Aug 16, 2020

At first you need to include the jQuery library.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

The “Select all” checkbox have an id #select_all and items checkboxes have a checkbox class. When checkbox with #select_all id is clicked, we will check whether it is checked or not. If #select_all is checked, loop through each checkbox with class checkbox and check all the checkboxes. Otherwise uncheck all the checkboxes.
Once each checkbox is clicked, we will check whether all the checkbox was checked or not and #select_all would be changed accordingly.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#select_all').on('click',function(){
        if(this.checked){
            $('.checkbox').each(function(){
                this.checked = true;
            });
        }else{
             $('.checkbox').each(function(){
                this.checked = false;
            });
        }
    });
    
    $('.checkbox').on('click',function(){
        if($('.checkbox:checked').length == $('.checkbox').length){
            $('#select_all').prop('checked',true);
        }else{
            $('#select_all').prop('checked',false);
        }
    });
});
</script>

The HTML would be the following:

<ul class="main">
    <li><input type="checkbox" id="select_all" /> Select all</li>
    <ul>
        <li><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="1"/>Item 1</li>
        <li><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="2"/>Item 2</li>
        <li><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="3"/>Item 3</li>
        <li><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="4"/>Item 4</li>
        <li><input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="5"/>Item 5</li>
    </ul>
</ul>
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