How can I know which radio button is selected via jQuery?

To get the value of the selected radioName item of a form with id myForm:

$('input[name=radioName]:checked', '#myForm').val()

Here's an example:

$('#myForm input').on('change', function() {
   alert($('input[name=radioName]:checked', '#myForm').val()); 
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="myForm">
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="1" /> 1 <br />
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="2" /> 2 <br />
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="3" /> 3 <br />
</form>

• I ended up using this: $('form input[type=radio]:checked') - juan
• @PeterJ: Why'd you use two arguments instead of simply '#myform input[name=radioName]:checked'? - Sophie Alpert
• jQuery performs best when scoped correctly, and selecting by ID is always the highest performing selector. The two-argument method is simply another way of doing it. - Peter J
• Why not :radio:checked? - Bakaburg
• For best performance, the documentation recommends not using the :radio selector. api.jquery.com/radio-selector - Peter J

Use this..

$("#myform input[type='radio']:checked").val();

• If your form has multiple sets of radio buttons this will only get the value of the first set, I think. - Brad
• This will only return value of the first radio button that is checked in the form. It should be done like the way Peter J suggested. - MickJ
• @MickJ This piece of code is the same as the one from Peter J ... Considering the use case of the original question. However, if you have various groups of radio buttons, it won't work. That's why it's prolly better to use [name=selector] - Lyth
• As @Brad mentioned, this will only get the value of the first set. What you want is to replace ".val()" with ".map(function(){return this.value;}).get();" - am_
• For what it is worth, (yea I know optimizing before needed blah blah ) but for pure performance this works faster especially in older browsers: $("#myform").find("input[type='radio']:checked").val(); - Mark Schultheiss

If you already have a reference to a radio button group, for example:

var myRadio = $("input[name=myRadio]");

Use the filter() function, not find(). (find() is for locating child/descendant elements, whereas filter() searches top-level elements in your selection.)

var checkedValue = myRadio.filter(":checked").val();

Notes: This answer was originally correcting another answer that recommended using find(), which seems to have since been changed. find() could still be useful for the situation where you already had a reference to a container element, but not to the radio buttons, e.g.:

var form = $("#mainForm");
...
var checkedValue = form.find("input[name=myRadio]:checked").val();

• I just wanted to add, for the sake of clarity, that find() actually searches all descendent elements (which match the given selector). If you only want direct children, use children(). - Matt Browne

This should work:

$("input[name='radioName']:checked").val()

Note the "" usaged around the input:checked and not '' like the Peter J's solution

You can use the :checked selector along with the radio selector.

 $("form:radio:checked").val();

• This looks nice, however, the jQuery documentation recommends using [type=radio] rather than :radio for better performance. It is a tradeoff between readability and performance. I normally take readability over performance on such trivial matters, but in this case I think [type=radio] is actually clearer. So in this case it would look like $("form input[type=radio]:checked").val(). Still a valid answer though. - J.Money

If you want just the boolean value, i.e. if it's checked or not try this:

$("#Myradio").is(":checked")

Get all radios:

var radios = jQuery("input[type='radio']");

Filter to get the one thats checked

radios.filter(":checked")

Another option is:

$('input[name=radioName]:checked').val()

• The ":radio" part isn't necessary here. - Matt Browne

$("input:radio:checked").val();

Here's how I would write the form and handle the getting of the checked radio.

Using a form called myForm:

<form id='myForm'>
    <input type='radio' name='radio1' class='radio1' value='val1' />
    <input type='radio' name='radio1' class='radio1' value='val2' />
    ...
</form>

Get the value from the form:

$('#myForm .radio1:checked').val();

If you're not posting the form, I would simplify it further by using:

<input type='radio' class='radio1' value='val1' />
<input type='radio' class='radio1' value='val2' />

Then getting the checked value becomes:

    $('.radio1:checked').val();

Having a class name on the input allows me to easily style the inputs...

In my case I have two radio buttons in one form and I wanted to know the status of each button. This below worked for me:

// get radio buttons value
console.log( "radio1: " +  $('input[id=radio1]:checked', '#toggle-form').val() );
console.log( "radio2: " +  $('input[id=radio2]:checked', '#toggle-form').val() );


    

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="toggle-form">
  <div id="radio">
    <input type="radio" id="radio1" name="radio" checked="checked" /><label for="radio1">Plot single</label>
    <input type="radio" id="radio2" name="radio"/><label for="radio2">Plot all</label>
  </div>
</form>

• What do you mean the status of each button? radio buttons with the same name allows only one to be checked, therefor, if you get the checked one, the rest are unchecked. - Dementic

In a JSF generated radio button (using <h:selectOneRadio> tag), you can do this:

radiobuttonvalue = jQuery("input[name='form_id\:radiobutton_id']:checked").val();

where selectOneRadio ID is radiobutton_id and form ID is form_id.

Be sure to use name instead id, as indicated, because jQuery uses this attribute (name is generated automatically by JSF resembling control ID).

I wrote a jQuery plugin for setting and getting radio-button values. It also respects the "change" event on them.

(function ($) {

    function changeRadioButton(element, value) {
        var name = $(element).attr("name");
        $("[type=radio][name=" + name + "]:checked").removeAttr("checked");
        $("[type=radio][name=" + name + "][value=" + value + "]").attr("checked", "checked");
        $("[type=radio][name=" + name + "]:checked").change();
    }

    function getRadioButton(element) {
        var name = $(element).attr("name");
        return $("[type=radio][name=" + name + "]:checked").attr("value");
    }

    var originalVal = $.fn.val;
    $.fn.val = function(value) {

        //is it a radio button? treat it differently.
        if($(this).is("[type=radio]")) {

            if (typeof value != 'undefined') {

                //setter
                changeRadioButton(this, value);
                return $(this);

            } else {

                //getter
                return getRadioButton(this);

            }

        } else {

            //it wasn't a radio button - let's call the default val function.
            if (typeof value != 'undefined') {
                return originalVal.call(this, value);
            } else {
                return originalVal.call(this);
            }

        }
    };
})(jQuery);

Put the code anywhere to enable the addin. Then enjoy! It just overrides the default val function without breaking anything.

You can visit this jsFiddle to try it in action, and see how it works.

Fiddle

Also, check if the user does not select anything.

var radioanswer = 'none';
if ($('input[name=myRadio]:checked').val() != null) {           
   radioanswer = $('input[name=myRadio]:checked').val();
}

If you have Multiple radio buttons in single form then

var myRadio1 = $('input[name=radioButtonName1]');
var value1 = myRadio1.filter(':checked').val();

var myRadio2 = $('input[name=radioButtonName2]');
var value2 = myRadio2.filter(':checked').val();

This is working for me.

 $(".Stat").click(function () {
     var rdbVal1 = $("input[name$=S]:checked").val();
 }

This works fine

$('input[type="radio"][class="className"]:checked').val()

Working Demo

The :checked selector works for checkboxes, radio buttons, and select elements. For select elements only, use the :selected selector.

API for :checked Selector

To get the value of the selected radio that uses a class:

$('.class:checked').val()

I use this simple script

$('input[name="myRadio"]').on('change', function() {
  var radioValue = $('input[name="myRadio"]:checked').val();        
  alert(radioValue); 
});

• Use the click event rather than the change event if you want it to work in all browsers - Matt Browne

Use this:

value = $('input[name=button-name]:checked').val();

DEMO : https://jsfiddle.net/ipsjolly/xygr065w/

	$(function(){
	    $("#submit").click(function(){      
	        alert($('input:radio:checked').val());
	    });
	 });

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
       <tr>
         <td>Sales Promotion</td>
         <td><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="1">1</td>
         <td><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="2">2</td>
         <td><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="3">3</td>
         <td><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="4">4</td>
         <td><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="5">5</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
<button id="submit">submit</button>

If you only have 1 set of radio buttons on 1 form, the jQuery code is as simple as this:

$( "input:checked" ).val()

I've released a library to help with this. Pulls all possible input values, actually, but also includes which radio button was checked. You can check it out at https://github.com/mazondo/formalizedata

It'll give you a js object of the answers, so a form like:

<form>
<input type="radio" name"favorite-color" value="blue" checked> Blue
<input type="radio" name="favorite-color" value="red"> Red
</form>

will give you:

$("form").formalizeData()
{
  "favorite-color" : "blue"
}

To retrieve all radio buttons values in JavaScript array use following jQuery code :

var values = jQuery('input:checkbox:checked.group1').map(function () {
    return this.value;
}).get();

• Radio buttons are not the same as checkboxes. This example uses checkboxes. - Matt Browne

try it-

var radioVal = $("#myform").find("input[type='radio']:checked").val();

console.log(radioVal);

Another way to get it:

 $("#myForm input[type=radio]").on("change",function(){
   if(this.checked) {
    alert(this.value);
    }
  });

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="myForm">
   <span><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="1">1</span><br>
   <span><input type="radio" name="q12_3" value="2">2</span>
</form>

From this question, I came up with an alternate way to access the currently selected input when you're within a click event for its respective label. The reason why is because the newly selected input isn't updated until after its label's click event.

TL;DR

$('label').click(function() {
  var selected = $('#' + $(this).attr('for')).val();

  ...
});

$(function() {
  // this outright does not work properly as explained above
  $('#reported label').click(function() {
    var query = $('input[name="filter"]:checked').val();
    var time = (new Date()).toString();

    $('.query[data-method="click event"]').html(query + ' at ' + time);
  });

  // this works, but fails to update when same label is clicked consecutively
  $('#reported input[name="filter"]').on('change', function() {
    var query = $('input[name="filter"]:checked').val();
    var time = (new Date()).toString();

    $('.query[data-method="change event"]').html(query + ' at ' + time);
  });

  // here is the solution I came up with
  $('#reported label').click(function() {
    var query = $('#' + $(this).attr('for')).val();
    var time = (new Date()).toString();

    $('.query[data-method="click event with this"]').html(query + ' at ' + time);
  });
});

input[name="filter"] {
  display: none;
}
#reported label {
  background-color: #ccc;
  padding: 5px;
  margin: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.query {
  padding: 5px;
  margin: 5px;
}
.query:before {
  content: "on " attr(data-method)": ";
}
[data-method="click event"] {
  color: red;
}
[data-method="change event"] {
  color: #cc0;
}
[data-method="click event with this"] {
  color: green;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="reported">
  <input type="radio" name="filter" id="question" value="questions" checked="checked">
  <label for="question">Questions</label>

  <input type="radio" name="filter" id="answer" value="answers">
  <label for="answer">Answers</label>

  <input type="radio" name="filter" id="comment" value="comments">
  <label for="comment">Comments</label>

  <input type="radio" name="filter" id="user" value="users">
  <label for="user">Users</label>

  <input type="radio" name="filter" id="company" value="companies">
  <label for="company">Companies</label>

  <div class="query" data-method="click event"></div>
  <div class="query" data-method="change event"></div>
  <div class="query" data-method="click event with this"></div>
</form>

$(function () {
// Someone has clicked one of the radio buttons
var myform= 'form.myform';
$(myform).click(function () {
    var radValue= "";
    $(this).find('input[type=radio]:checked').each(function () {
        radValue= $(this).val();
    });
  })
});

What I needed to do was simplify C# code, that is do as much as possible in the front end JavaScript. I'm using a fieldset container because I'm working in DNN and it has its own form. So I can't add a form.

I need to test which text box out of 3 is being used and if it is, what's the type of search? Starts with the value, Contains the value, Exact Match of the value.

HTML:

<fieldset id="fsPartNum" class="form-inline">
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="txtPartNumber">Part Number:</label>
    <input type="text" id="txtPartNumber" class="input-margin-pn" />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="radPNStartsWith">Starts With: </label>
    <input type="radio" id="radPNStartsWith" name="partNumber" checked  value="StartsWith"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="radPNContains">Contains: </label>
    <input type="radio" id="radPNContains" name="partNumber" value="Contains" />
</div>
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="radPNExactMatch">Exact Match: </label>
    <input type="radio" id="radPNExactMatch" name="partNumber" value="ExactMatch" />
</div>

And my JavaScript is:

        alert($('input[name=partNumber]:checked', '#fsPartNum').val()); 
    if(txtPartNumber.val() !== ''){
        message = 'Customer Part Number';
    }
    else if(txtCommercialPartNumber.val() !== ''){

    }
    else if(txtDescription.val() !== ''){

    }

Just saying any containing tag with an ID can be used. For DNNers, this is good to know. The end goal here is pass to the mid-level code what is needed to start a parts search in SQL Server.

This way I don't have to copy the much more complicated previous C# code also. The heavy lifting is being done right here.

I had to look a bit for this and then tinker with it to get it to work. So for other DNNers, hopefully this is easy to find.

You need access with the :checked selector:

Check this doc:

• https://api.jquery.com/checked-selector/

a example:

$('input[name=radioName]:checked', '#myForm').val()
$('#myForm input').on('change', function() {
	$('#val').text($('input[name=radioName]:checked', '#myForm').val());
});

#val {
  color: #EB0054;
  font-size: 1.5em;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<h3>Radio value: <span id='val'><span></h3>
<form id="myForm">
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="a"> a <br>
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="b"> b <br>
  <input type="radio" name="radioName" value="c"> c <br>
</form>