How to trigger checkbox click event even if it's checked through Javascript code?

Question

I have many checkboxes in my page and there is a select all checkbox which checks all the checkboxes. Somehow I want to emulate that click event of checkbox even if it\'s checke

Answer 1

Getting check status

var checked = $("#selectall").is(":checked");

Then for setting

$("input:checkbox").attr("checked",checked);