Activate or check checkbox with onchange event from dropdown

Question

Javascript and I will never be best friends.

I try to set a checkbox to checked by changing the elements from a dropdownlist.

This is the snippet

<select name="change_status_to" id="sel">
  <option>....</option>
  <option>....</option>
</select>

<input type="checkbox" name="do_status_change" value="on">

How could I use Javascript with the onchange-event to set the checkbox to the state checked?

Answer 1

You can set its .checked property:

document.getElementById("do_status_change").checked = true;
document.getElementById("do_status_change").checked = false;

However, you need to set an id ; the name attribute will not suffice.

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Answer 2

Here is an example of why you should be friends with javascript.

JSFiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/juc7Q/1/

HTML

You're feeling toward Javascript
<select name="friends" id="friends">
    <option value="love">I love JS</option>
    <option value="weird">JS is weird</option>
    <option value="misunderstood">Are we speaking the same language?</option>
</select>

<button id="selectWeird">Keep JS Weird</button>
<div>
    <input type="checkbox" id="we_friends"> - Friends?
</div>

JavaScript

//Select this using js
var list = document.getElementById('friends');
var cb = document.getElementById('we_friends');

//Add event when change happens
list.onchange = function () {
    var value = list.value;
    if(value == 'love') {
        alert('I knew you would come around');
        cb.setAttribute('checked', '');
    } else if(value == 'weird') {
        alert('And I like being weird :-)!!');
        cb.removeAttribute('checked');
    } else {
        alert('And you think I understand you?');
        cb.removeAttribute('checked');
    }
}

//Change to 'Weird' when I click on it
var btn = document.getElementById('selectWeird');
btn.onclick = function () {
    list.options.selectedIndex = 1;
}