jQuery - checkboxes like radiobuttons

Question

I have group checkboxes and I like if this group have behaviour like radiobuttons with same name atribute.

Each checkbox has different name.

Only one can be

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. I couldn't use radio button because the same form had to display multiple choice checkboxes in some situations. I took your markup and wrote this small piece of jQuery:

$("span.multiGroup input").click(function() {
    $("span.multiGroup input").attr('checked', false);
    $(this).attr('checked', true);
});