Title: Checkbox checked in Javascript
Last modified: August 13, 2020

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# Checkbox checked in Javascript

 *  Resolved [kzou13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kzou13/)
 * (@kzou13)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-checked-in-javascript/)
 * Hello,
    I spent a day in order to be able to retrieve the value of a checkbox
   during the validation of the form.
 * I have a javascript script :
    jQuery (document) .on (‘click’, ‘.wpcf7-submit’,
   function (e)”
 * I can retrieve data from textbox, however I cannot tell if a checkbox is checked.
 * In the form I wrote it like this: [urgent checkbox id: urgent “URGENT”]
 * I tried :
    if (document.getElementById (“urgent”) == true) { urgent = “& urgent
   = URGENT”; }
 * It returns “undefined”.
 * When I inspect the checkbox in HTML I see this :
    <input type = “checkbox” name
   = “urgent[]” value = “URGENT”>
 * If you have the solution it would help me a lot …
    Thank you ! 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [kzou13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kzou13/)
 * (@kzou13)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-checked-in-javascript/#post-13273869)
 * Too hard ? ^^
    Thanks
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [kzou13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kzou13/).

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-checked-in-javascript/#post-13273869)
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