I want to get checkbox with specfic value and make it checked.. I make like this $(":checkbox").filter({"value":5}).attr("checked","true");? and here is the html ?<input type="checkbox" name="priv"????????????????????????????? value="1"?????????????????/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="2"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="3"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="4"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="5"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="6"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="7"/> <input type="checkbox" name="priv" value="8"/>? here's a demo of the problem