HTML DOM Input Checkbox Object

Last Updated : 11 Jan, 2024

The input checkbox object in HTML represents a checkbox in an HTML form. For each instance of an <input type = "checkbox"> element in an HTML form, a checkbox object is created. To access the checkbox object use indexing the elements array of the corresponding form or by using objects();

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Creating checkbox object
Accessing checkbox object

Creating checkbox object:

We can create checkbox objects through JavaScript. To create <input type = "checkbox"> element use document.createElement() method. After creation use the appendChild() method to append it to the particular element (such as div) to display it.

Syntax:

let a = document.createElement("container");
a.setAttribute("type", "container");

Example 1: This example illustrates, how to create a checkbox object in an HTML document.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Input Checkbox object
    </title>
    <style>
        body {
            text-align: center;
        }

        h1 {
            color: green;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h2>Creating an Input Checkbox Object</h2>
    <p>Click the button to create a checkbox.</p>
    <button onclick="geek()">Click me!</button>
    <br>
    <div id="myDiv"></div>
    <script>
        function geek() {
            let myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv");
          
            // creating checkbox element
            let checkbox = document.createElement('input');

            // Assigning the attributes to created checkbox
            checkbox.type = "checkbox";
            checkbox.name = "name";
            checkbox.value = "value";
            checkbox.id = "id";

            // creating label for checkbox
            let label = document.createElement('label');

            // assigning attributes for the created label tag 
            label.htmlFor = "id";

            // appending the created text to 
            // the created label tag 
            label.appendChild(document.createTextNode('This is the label for checkbox.'));

            // appending the checkbox and label to div
            myDiv.appendChild(checkbox);
            myDiv.appendChild(label);
        }
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Output:
frt

Accessing checkbox object:

We can access the checkbox object by using the getElementById() method. Put the id of the checkbox element in the getElementById() to access it.

Syntax:

let a = document.getElementById("container");

Example 2: This example illustrates , how to access checkbox object in an HTML document.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Input Checkbox object
    </title>
    <style>
        body {
            text-align: center;
        }

        h1 {
            color: green;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h2>Accessing checkbox object</h2>
    <p>Click the button to check the checkbox.</p>
    <button onclick="myFunction()">Click me!</button><br>
    Checkbox: <input type="checkbox" id="check">
    <script>
        function myFunction() {
          
            // fetching the checkbox by id
            let doc = document.getElementById("check");

            // changing the state of checkbox to checked
            doc.checked = true;
        }
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Output:

frt

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Supported Browsers:

Google Chrome 1
Edge 12
Firefox 1
Opera 15
Safari 1

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