How to find all unselected checkboxes?

Question

In jQuery, how does one go about finding all the \'unchecked\' checked boxes.

$(\':checkbox:checked\');

appears to be me all checked boxes, but

Answer 1

A solution without special jQuery selectors, using the attribute selector [docs] and .filter() [docs]:

$('input[type="checkbox"]').filter(function() {
    return !this.checked;
});