Checkbox

A control that allows a user to make a choice between one or several opposite options by toggling them.

Checkbox control

Adding Checkbox

You can easily add a Checkbox control during initialization of a form:

var form = new dhx.Form("form_container", {
    rows: [
        {   
            type: "checkbox",
            label: "I agree",
            name: "agree",
            labelInline: true,
            id: "agree",
            value: "checkboxvalue"
        }
    ]
});

Attributes

You can provide the following attributes in the configuration object of a Checkbox:

type - (string) the type of a control, set it to "checkbox"
id - (string) the id of a control, auto-generated if not set
checked - (boolean) defines the initial state of a checkbox
value - (string) the value of a checkbox
hidden - (boolean) defines whether a checkbox is hidden
parent - (string) the id of the parent control
width - (string) the width of a control
height - (string) the height of a control
css - (string) adds style classes to a control
disabled - (boolean) defines whether a control is enabled (false) or disabled (true)
label - (string) specifies a label for a control
labelWidth - (string) sets the width of the label of a control
hiddenLabel - (boolean) invisible label that will be used to identify the input on the server side
labelInline - (boolean) defines the position of a label: true - to set a label inline with a control
name - (string) the name of a control
required - (boolean) defines whether a control is required
help - (string) adds a help message to a control
preMessage - (string) a message that contains instructions for interacting with the control
successMessage - (string) a message that appears in case of successful validation of the control value
errorMessage - (string) a message that appears in case of error during validation of the control value
gravity - (boolean) arranges form controls evenly throughout the container, depending on the direction of layout ("cols" or "rows"), true by default