How to Uncheck A radio button

Question

I have two forms, one with a radio button that users must select to edit.

[form name="A"]
<li>[input type="radio" name="BookItem" value="1" /]</li>
<li>[input type="radio" name="BookItem" value="2" /]</li>
<li>[input type="radio" name="BookItem" value="3" /]</li>
[form]<p>

After "BookItem" is selected from form (A) I call the $("#EditFormWrapper").load("callEditData.cfm? ID="+ID); function to load the second form (B)

<div id="EditFormWrapper"><div></p>
<!---//  begin dynamic form generated by external file callEditData.cfm  //--->
[form id="editForm" name="B"]
<ul class="hourswrapper">
<li><input type="checkbox" id="TOR2Hours" class="TOR2Hours" name="TOR2Hours" value="AM2Hrs1" /> 2 Hours AM</li>
 <li><input type="checkbox" id="TOR2Hours" class="TOR2Hours" name="TOR2Hours" value="PM2Hrs1" /> 2 Hours PM</li>
<li><input type="checkbox" id="TOR2Hours" class="TOR2Hours" name="TOR2Hours" value="AM2Hrs2" /> 2 Hours AM</li>
 <li><input type="checkbox" id="TOR2Hours" class="TOR2Hours" name="TOR2Hours" value="PM2Hrs2" /> 2 Hours PM</li>
</ul>
[input type="image" src="images/submit-btn.gif" id="addBTN" name="addBTN" class="buttons" alt="SubmitRrequest" /]
[input type="image" src="images/cancel-btn.gif" id="editBTNcancel" name="editBTNcancel" class="buttons" alt="Cancel Request" /]
[/form]
<!---//  end dynamic form from external file //--->

I want to uncheck the radio button on form (A) when user click on cancel button (editBTNcancel) in form(B).

Here's my script:

$("#editBTNcancel").live("click", function(event){
    event.preventDefault();
    $("#EditFormWrapper").slideUp("fast").empty();
    //$('.TOR2Hours').removeAttr('checked');
    $('.TOR2Hours').attr('checked', false);
});

I hope I clearly state my problem, any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

you can access form like so ...

var exampleForm = document.forms['form_name'];

then loop through the form

for( var i=0; i<exampleForm.length; i++ ){
   alert( exampleForm[i].type );
}

you can test for checked like so ...

if( exampleForm[i].checked ) 

to deselect the checked radio button try ...

exampleForm[i].checked=false;

the final code would look like this ...

var exampleForm = document.forms['form_name'];
for( var i=0; i<exampleForm.length; i++ ){
   if( exampleForm[i].type ) == 'radio' && exampleForm[i].checked == true ){
       exampleForm[i].checked = false;
   }
}

Answer 2

I'm not sure exactly what you want but you might try using a reset input.

<input type='reset' />

Answer 3

Seeing as this is pretty much the easiest DOM task there is and works in every scriptable browser, I suggest not using the jQuery methods for it:

$(".TOR2Hours")[0].checked = false;

The other thing that ocurs to me is whether your selector is correct. Did you mean to select a set of elements by class or should it be an ID selector?

Answer 4

Your selector is simply wrong. If you want to uncheck the radio button from first form you should use $('input[name="BookItem"]') and not $('.TOR2Hours') :

$("#editBTNcancel").on("click", function(event){ $("#EditFormWrapper").slideUp("fast").empty(); $('input[name="BookItem"]').attr('checked', false); });

As far as which method to use to uncheck radio buttons, The following 3 methods should all work:

1. $('input[name="BookItem"]').attr('checked', false);
2. $('input[name="BookItem"]').removeAttr('checked');
3. $('input[name="BookItem"]').prop('checked', false);

However, check out jQuery's docs on jQuery prop() for the difference between attr() and prop().