Count the number of checked checkboxes in HTML

Question

So basically i want to count the number of checkboxes that are ticked. I get my code to the point where it counts them successfully, but I want to put in an alert that shows

Answer 1

Try this code

 
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Javascript

     function checkboxes()
      {
       var inputElems = document.getElementsByTagName("input"),
        count = 0;

        for (var i=0; i

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