How to count check-boxes using jQuery?

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I have tons of checkboxes that are either checked (checked="checked") or unchecked. I would like to get the number of all checkboxes, unchecked and checked checkboxes. With check-box I mean <input type="checkbox" />. How to do it with jQuery? Thanks in advance! jquery checkbox count checked shareimprove this question edited Sep 10 '17 at 0:14 Nitin Bhargava 73 asked Nov 4 '11 at 15:18 daGrevis 7,7852478124

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up vote114down voteaccepted	You could do: var numberOfChecked = $('input:checkbox:checked').length; var totalCheckboxes = $('input:checkbox').length; var numberNotChecked = totalCheckboxes - numberOfChecked; EDIT Or even simple var numberNotChecked = $('input:checkbox:not(":checked")').length; shareimprove this answer edited Jun 17 '16 at 12:34 Hassaan 4,39441033 answered Nov 4 '11 at 15:19 Nicola Peluchetti 57k22107160
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up vote4down vote	The following code worked for me. $('input[name="chkGender[]"]:checked').length; shareimprove this answer edited Mar 28 '16 at 10:36 Gunaseelan 1,63932330 answered Jun 30 '15 at 11:06 Nguyễn Thành Bồi 85677
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up vote1down vote	There are multiple methods to do that: Method 1: alert($('.checkbox_class_here:checked').size()); Method 2: alert($('input[name=checkbox_name]').attr('checked')); Method 3: alert($(":checkbox:checked").length); shareimprove this answer edited Jan 9 '17 at 7:16 FelixSFD 3,64472655 answered Jan 9 '17 at 6:57 Hasnain Mehmood 894
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Assume that you have a tr row with multiple checkboxes in it, and you want to count only if the first checkbox is checked. You can do that by giving a class to the first checkbox For example class='mycxk' and you can count that using the filter, like this $('.mycxk').filter(':checked').length