Preventing checkbox from being deselected when click trigger is on parent element

Kind of a funny problem here.

I want to check the checkbox when the parent div is checked, but it is DESELECTING the checkbox when the CHECKBOX is clicked on ;)

It works fine when the name is clicked on. How do i solve this?

//layout
<div class开发者_如何学编程="parent">
   <input type="checkbox"/> <a>Name</a>
</div>

//check the box when parent div is clicked
$(".parent").click(function(event){
   event.preventDefault();
   checkbox=$(this).find("input:checkbox");
   checkbox.attr("checked","checked");
});

Try this.

<div class="parent">
   <input type="checkbox" class="check"/> <a>Name</a>
</div>

$(".parent").click(function(event){
    $(".check:not(:checked)").attr('checked','checked');
});
$(".check").click(function(event){
   event.stopPropagation();
});

jsFiddle is here

Try adding:

event.stopPropagation();
return false;

to your event handler.

So, your code looks like:

//layout
<div class="parent">
   <input type="checkbox"/> <a>Name</a>
</div>

//check the box when parent div is clicked
$(".parent").click(function(event){
   event.stopPropagation();
   event.preventDefault();

   checkbox=$(this).find("input:checkbox");
   checkbox.attr("checked","checked");

   return false;
});

...

Documentation for event.stopPropagation():
http://api.jquery.com/event.stopPropagation/

I haven't tried it, but I suspect you can prevent the parent's action from running by preventing the event from bubbling like so:

$(".parent input:checkbox").click(function(event) {
  event.stopPropagation();
});

Alternatively, you could just put your click handler on the <a>Name</a> element or use a <label> element without adding any JS (this is exactly what <label> is for).