"Select All" JavaScript for Forms Posting to an Array

thx a lot! nice and clear code :)

#2, sylvio, France, 5 September 2005. Reply to this.

thanks a lot ... working well with firefox.

#4, deltanine, Germany, 13 September 2005. Reply to this.

Great work guys,

both work great on Firefox. This was causing me dramas but all is now well. :)

#6, Scott, New Zealand, 6 October 2005. Reply to this.

thanks... just what i needed

#8, timmygrimm, United States, 3 November 2005. Reply to this.

Works fine in IE6, but not in Firefox.

I tried the idea in #5 but it didnt work at all.

#10, Zac Craven, United Kingdom, 10 November 2005. Reply to this.

works great in IE but not in Firefox, please can you either post here how to mkae it work in FOrefox or e-mail me at support@unicentral.co.uk

Thank you

#12, Anthony Eskinazi, United Kingdom, 10 December 2005. Reply to this.

Thanks, saved me a bunch of time. Post-solution works fine in firefox and IE. #5 didnt seem to work in firefox...

#14, J.D., Canada, 10 January 2006. Reply to this.

A great piece of code!

I modified it a little so that I have my list of checkboxes with an extra checkbox at the end labelled "select all", which when clicked checked checks all the other check boxes and when de-checked unchecks them all:
CODE=========================
var selectedAll = "false";
function select_all(name)
{
for (i = 0; i < forminputs.length; i++)
{
// regex here to check name attribute
var regex = new RegExp(name, "i");
if (regex.test(forminputs[i].getAttribute('name')))
{
if(selectedAll == "false")
{
forminputs[i].checked = true;
}
else
{
forminputs[i].checked = false;
}
}
}
if(selectedAll == "false")
{
selectedAll = "true";
}
else
{
selectedAll = "false";
}
}
CODE=========================

The input tag is then used as follows:

<input type="checkbox" onClick="checkAll('area');" />

#16, Richard, United Kingdom, 6 March 2006. Reply to this.

Exactly what I was looking for, gracias!

#18, Casey, United States, 6 April 2006. Reply to this.

If works for me on Firefox 1.5 and IE 6.
It's exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks

#20, Will, France, 13 April 2006. Reply to this.

Thanks! I had this very issue and your solution saved me some time! Thanks again!

#22, Anonymous, Canada, 8 June 2006. Reply to this.

Thanks a lot! Just what I was looking for.

#24, Ian Hart, United Kingdom, 13 June 2006. Reply to this.

Thanks for the Firefox/IE compatibility fix, Kasso.

Everyelse else, please note: the Jack Daniels code does not work on Firefox!

#26, Jonas, United States, 19 July 2006. Reply to this.

nevermind, I had to change the DOM casue it was the second form on the page.

#28, patrad, United States, 16 August 2006. Reply to this.

Excellent work around. It worked perfectly. Thanks Alot.

#30, Freakshow, United States, 29 August 2006. Reply to this.

I love solution #5. Nice simple trick to get the job done. It works in IE and Firefox. I heard some users in this thread have issue with Firefox, not me. Perhap because I am using the latest. 1.5.0.6.

#32, Arnod, Canada, 6 September 2006. Reply to this.

Just what I was hoping to find! Nice example!

#34, Travis, United States, 28 September 2006. Reply to this.

Hi Green_Monkey23. I don't know - I use Opera as well. Is it just this site? It might be you have "Show Images" set to off or cached.

#36, Dave Child, United Kingdom, 4 October 2006. Reply to this.

Nice! Just what I was looking for. Works with firefox and IE.

#38, Atul Felix, India, 24 October 2006. Reply to this.

thks ..the code helped me as well..

#40, Anonymous, United States, 9 November 2006. Reply to this.

Another method:

If you're putting IDs in the array elements like this:
<input type=checkbox name='newsel[13]' value='Y'>
<input type=checkbox name='newsel[10]' value='Y'>

Then this code will work:

//==========
// checkAll
//--------------------------------
// Check all checkboxes in a list
//================================
function checkall(form, name, value){
for (x in form) {
if (x.match(name)) {
form[x].checked=value;
}
}
}

#42, Tim Henderson, United States, 11 December 2006. Reply to this.

It works fine

thanks a lot!

#44, Sanjib, India, 28 December 2006. Reply to this.