I'm guessing what you're after is just getting the value of the checkbox. What MorningZ said is absolutely correct. I would suggest you try:
<li><input type="checkbox" value="hello" /></li> Then in jQuery: $(":checkbox").click(function(){ alert(this.value); }); On Sep 25, 1:53 pm, MorningZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To start with, that html isn't valid, as you have > > <li><label><input type="checkbox" />hello</input></label></li> > > with the checkbox <input> ending in "/>", which closes the tag, hence > the "hello" is not inside the input tag..... even if you take that > out, pretty sure that's not valid html anyways