A quick post about a small snippet of code that I’ve quickly written up, just to see how easily it could be done. It’s a feature that I feel should be on every web app (there are exceptions though). It’s the ability, when dealing with a list of checkboxes (in an email client for example), to be able to select one checkbox and then, while holding shift, select another and for this to then select all those checkboxes in between. To effectively select a range of checkboxes all at once.
This reduces the number of clicks required, in some cases, drastically and is one of those nice little touches which really makes you feel as though the user interaction with a web app has been considered. To make things even better, it’s a very simple feature to implement! I’ve attempted to do it sparingly, but I’m sure it can be condensed even more. And my comments can of course be removed to save space.
Hopefully this will help someone to add a nice little extra to their web app, just as a final bit of polish. I’ve put it on to Codepen, which means if I’ve made a massive error, someone can fork me and correct it!
You can find my code at http://codepen.io/andrewbridge/pen/qtgcE and it includes a demo of the code working, do try it out! It may be something that’s helpful to you!
