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How can I select all check boxes in a form?

Sep 20th, 1999 23:05
Nathan Wallace, Richard Feather

You'll need to do it with Javascript on the client...

Something like...

    function checkAll()
    {
        for(var i=0;i<document.element.foo.elements.length;i++)
        {
            var e = document.foo.elements[i];
            if (e.name!='allbox')
                e.checked = document.foo.allbox.checked;
        }
    }

where the name of the form is 'foo'...  I'm doing this from memory and 
it isn't exact (it loops over all elements) so you might need to work 
with it a little.  But as I look at it it should work okay.