Comments on: Stupid IE 6 Bug #182478: Check boxes added through Javascript aren’t checked

By: Olli

Olli — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:00:36 +0000

Sorry, I was too fast. In IE6 I needed also the defaultChecked-property.

By: Olli

Olli — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:16:04 +0000

Thanks, attaching the checkbox to parent element and then setting the checked-property worked for me.

By: Luke Rocco

Luke Rocco — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:40:01 +0000

Just to let you guys know, this problem still persists in IE 8… haven’t tried IE 9 though…

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:58:58 +0000

“Set the defaultChecked attribute to true prior to adding the node to the DOM!” – your first advice didn’t work in my case, but this one was spot on! IE6 and IE7 bow to your superior knowledge. Thank you very much!!! Marco

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:26:30 +0000

Thanks for the post! I’ve been struggling with IE6 and checkboxes for ages.

By: fwolle

fwolle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:07:19 +0000

oops, please remove my last post

By: fwolle

fwolle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:49:44 +0000

you can set the checkbox as checked, after the append.


        anElem.appendChild(var e=new Element("input", 
                {'type':'checkbox','name':'mycb','checked':'checked','defaultChecked':'true'}));
        e.checked=true;

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:15:00 +0000

This bug (299) is tracked over at Web Bug track
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/11/bug-299-setattribute-checked-does-not.html

It is just one of dozens of IE bugs wrapped up in bug 244
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-242-setattribute-doesnt-always-work.html

It should be noted that your bug affects radio buttons too, and also affects both when cloning nodes in the DOM. (they’ll become unchecked)