[jQuery] Selecting Checkboxes inside the table

[AzamSharp]

I am having trouble to check the checkboxes contained inside the HTML
table.

Here is the table code:

 <table id="chkList" border="0">
        <tr>
                <td><input id="chkList_0" type="checkbox" name="chkList$0" 
/><label
for="chkList_0">Item 1</label></td>
        </tr><tr>
                <td><input id="chkList_1" type="checkbox" name="chkList$1" 
/><label
for="chkList_1">Item 2</label></td>
        </tr><tr>
                <td><input id="chkList_2" type="checkbox" name="chkList$2" 
/><label
for="chkList_2">Item 3</label></td>
        </tr>
</table>

I am using the following code to check all the checkboxes but it does
NOTHING!

  ($("#chkList").children({"input":"checkbox"}).each(function()
       {

            this.checked = true;
       }));