Prevent checkbox from ticking/checking COMPLETELY

Question

I have been asked to disable the \"ticking\" of a checkbox. I am not being asked to disable the checkbox, but to simply disable the \"ticking\".

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Answer 1

TL:DR;

HTML api's execute before JavaScript. So you must use JavaScript to undo HTML's changes.

event.target.checked = false

WHAT is the problem?

Strictly speaking: we cannot "stop" the checkbox from being ticked. Why not? Because "being ticked" exactly means that the DOM's, HTML element has a checked property value of true or false, which is immediately assigned by the HTML api

console.log(event.target.checked) // will be opposite of the previous value

So it's worth explicitly mentioning this HTML api is called before scripts. Which is intuitive and should make sense, because all JavaScript files are themselves the assignment of a