Validating a radio button is checked with jQuery

Question

On my form I havea set of radio buttons. Here\'s the mark up:

    
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Answer 1

You can use the length and equal attribute selector with :checked filter selector like this:

if ($("input[name='fileType']:checked").length > 0){
  // one ore more checkboxes are checked
}
else{
 // no checkboxes are checked
}