How to check a checkbox in capybara?

Question

I\'m using Rspec and Capybara.

How can I write a step to check a checkbox? I\'ve tried check by value but it can\'t find my checkbox<

Answer 1

to select the checkbox

  check 'name_of_checkbox'

Answer 2

I found the following worked for me:

# Check
find(:css, "#cityID[value='62']").set(true)

# Uncheck
find(:css, "#cityID[value='62']").set(false)

Answer 3

When running capybara test, you got the page object. This you can use to check/uncheck any checkboxes. As @buruzaemon already mentioned:

to find and check a checkbox by name, id, or label text.

So lets assume you got a checkbox in your html like:

<label>  
  <input type="checkbox" value="myvalue" name="myname" id="myid">
  MyLabel
</label>

You could check this with:

page.check('myid')
page.check('MyLabel')
page.check('myname')

Uncheck is the same just use page.uncheck method.

Answer 4

It's better not to create multiple elements with the same id, so that (and not only for that) you can easily check/uncheck a checkbox with elegant

check 'cityID'
uncheck 'cityID'

If one can not avoid multiple elements with the same id and still needs to check a checkbox with certain value, he can do so with

find(:css, "#cityID[value='62']").set(true)
find(:css, "#cityID[value='62']").set(false)

More information on capybara input manipulations can be found here

Answer 5

An old topic but another solution is:

check('Option 3', allow_label_click: true)

Answer 6

Had some issues with custom checkbox which is hidden behind label element. Needed a allow_label_click: true.

With reference to this blog post,

check 'checkbox[name]', allow_label_click: true

For cases where there is a link in your label like "I agree to terms and conditions", the above code will open the page, which is not what you want.

Do this instead.

find(:css, "#checkbox_id", visible: false).execute_script('this.checked = true')