Click a div to check / uncheck a checkbox

Question

I applied the following code to make table rows check/uncheck a child checkbox when clicked. Now I discovered that when clicking the checkbox itself inside the row it doesen

Answer 1

Besides the given solutions, isn't it better to just set the checkbox to the oposite state? For example:

var _current_state = checkbox.attr("checked");
checkbox.attr("checked") = !_current_state;