how to clear checkbox

Question

I want to clear the selection of checkboxes if they click cancel. How can I achive this with this code:

var chkbox= $('#divListBox').find(':checked')                  .map(function() {                      return $(this).val();                  }).get(); 

Answer 1

This should work:

$('#divListBox :checked').removeAttr('checked'); 

Answer 2

The advantage of this solution is if you have on change events or on click events tied to the checkbox this will make them happen.

$('#divListBox').each(function(index, element) {   var checked = element.checked;   if (checked) {     $(element).trigger('click');   } }); 

Also with bootstrap the checkbox wasn't getting found with the :checked selector.

Hope that helps.