jQuery to get the text attribute of a checkbox - asp.net

Question

I'm adding a check box to a page using the following statement;
<script language="C#" runat="server">
protected void Page_Load ( object src, EventArgs e )
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
CheckBox XChkBox = new CheckBox(); //instance of System.Web.UI.WebControls.CheckBox
XChkBox.ID = "someId"
XChkBox.Text = "someText"
somePlaceHolder.Controls.Add(XChkBox);
}
}
</script>
I need to get the Text attribute of that check box on click. I tried $(this).attr('Text'); inside $('input[type=checkbox]').click(function(){}); but it returns undefined.
Where am I going wrong? Please suggest.
cheers

Answer 1

ASP .NET renders the Text property of the ASP:CheckBox server control, as a label element just after the <input type="checkbox" /> on the generated markup at the client, it looks something like this:
<input id="someId" type="checkbox" name="someId" />
<label for="someId"> someText </label>
You can get the text of the label by:
$("input:checkbox").click(function() {
var $label = $(this).next('label');
alert($label.text());
});

Answer 2

The CheckBox control renders the Text inside a <label> element. The text is not part of the HTML checkbox. If you want to get the text from jQuery, you have to get it from the <label>.
Also, the <label> it generates doesn't actually have an ID. If your CheckBox is named checkBox1, then the HTML it outputs will be <label for="CheckBox1">, and the text is inside that element. I believe the correct jQuery syntax would be:
$('label[for="checkBox1"]').html()

Answer 3

This depends on how you're implementing what you call "text".
If it's like this:
<input id="chkFoo" type="checkbox" text="Check me, fool!" />
Then you can access the text like this:
$("#chkFoo").attr("text")
If you do it like this
<input id="chkFoo" type="checkbox" />Check me, fool!
I think you're out of luck. Put a span around the text if you have to do it this way and grab it like this:
<input id="chkFoo" type="checkbox" /><span id="spnFoo">Check me, fool!</span>
$("#spnFoo").text()