find all unchecked checkbox in jquery

Question

I have a list of checkboxes:

Answer 1

You can use like this :

$(":checkbox:not(:checked)")

Answer 2

$("input[type='checkbox']:not(:checked):not('\#chkAll\')").map(function () { 
   var a = ""; 
   if (this.name != "chkAll") { 
      a = this.name + "|off"; 
   } 
   return a; 
}).get().join();

This will retrieve all unchecked checkboxes and exclude the "chkAll" checkbox that I use to check|uncheck all checkboxes. Since I want to know what value I'm passing to the database I set these to off, since the checkboxes give me a value of on.

//looking for unchecked checkboxes, but don’t include the checkbox all that checks or unchecks all checkboxes
//.map - Pass each element in the current matched set through a function, producing a new jQuery object containing the return values.

//.get - Retrieve the DOM elements matched by the jQuery object.
//.join - (javascript) joins the elements of an array into a string, and returns the string.The elements will be separated by a specified separator. The default separator is comma (,).