<input type="checkbox">

The HTML input element <input type="checkbox"> is an input element to enter an array of different values. The value attribute is used to define the value submitted by the checkbox. The checked attribute is used to indicate whether this item is selected. The indeterminate attribute is used to indicate that the checkbox is in an indeterminate state (on most platforms, this draws a horizontal line across the checkbox).

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

checked

When the value of the type attribute is checkbox, the presence of this Boolean attribute indicates that the control is selected by default; otherwise it is ignored.

value

The initial value of the control. If omitted, the result of getting the value property of the element will be the string "on".
Note that when reloading the page, Gecko and IE will ignore the value specified in the HTML source, if the value was changed before the reload.

Example

<label><input type="checkbox" id="cbox1" value="first_checkbox"> This is the first checkbox</label><br>

<input type="checkbox" id="cbox2" value="second_checkbox"> <label for="cbox2">This is the second checkbox</label>

This creates two checkboxes, which look like this:

Specifications

Browser compatibility