Correct way to do HTML5 checkbox

Question

I can\'t seem to find an example anywhere... what\'s the correct way of doing a HTML5 checkbox?

Answer 1

A more complete example - and avoiding the long stream of posts to How to check whether a checkbox is checked in jQuery?.

HTML

Optionally add the 'checked' attribute to default to checked on load.

JavaScript

$('#your_id').is(':checked')        // Returns a Boolean TRUE if checked

e.g.

if ($('#your_id').is(':checked')) {
    // Checkbox was checked
}