Pages tagged html checkbox events

The HTML checkbox input element allows you to select a single value for submission in a form for example if you are creating a form and want to know if the applicant is fluent in English or not you can have a checkbox and if the user thinks he/she is fluent in English he/she checks it if not leaves it unchecked .

In this tutorial we are going to learn

1. How to handle onclick and onchange events and the difference between them
2. How to handle checkbox events in Jquery
3. How to submit a form when checkbox is clicked
4. Show/ Hide a section of the form when checkbox is clicked

To start working with checkboxes we will create a form that contains a checkbox , in this example we will be building a form that takes a user name and has also a checkbox that the user should check if he thinks he is fluent in English , if not a prompt will appear showing the user a text that says you need to be fluent in English to apply for the job.