I am trying to create several checkboxradio buttons groups in jQuery mobile that depend on a limit checkboxradio button group value. For example if a limit of 6 is selected I want to only allow the user to be able to select up to a total of 6 children based on all of the other checkboxradio button group selected values and disable everything else. When the limit changes I want to update the UI accordingly.
I have the following code in my change event handler whenever any of the checkboxradio buttons are clicks:
function updateUI(element) {
var limit = parseInt($('input[name="Limit_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
// Children
var childCount = parseInt($('input[name="Child_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
var secondChildCount = parseInt($('input[name="Second_Child_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
var thirdChildCount = parseInt($('input[name="Third_Child_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
var fourthChildCount = parseInt($('input[name="Fourth_Child_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
var fifthChildCount = parseInt($('input[name="Fifth_Child_Total"]:checked').val(), 10);
// Totals
var totalChildern = childCount + secondChildCount + thirdChildCount + fourthChildCount + fifthChildCount;
// Enable the correct combination of children
$('input[name*="Child_Total"]').not(element).checkboxradio('disable').checkboxradio('refresh');
for (var i = 0; i <= 6; i++) {
if (i <= (limit - totalChildren)) {
$('input[id$="Child_Total_' + i + '"]').not(element).checkboxradio('enable').checkboxradio('refresh');
} else {
$('input[id$="Child_Total_' + i + '"]').not(element).attr('checked', false).checkboxradio('refresh');
}
}
}
I basically want to simulate the behavior illustrated in the image below:

The problem is it doesn't quite give me the behavior I want. It deselects all but the button I select within the group. I am trying to figure out the most efficient way to do this but I am having a hard time. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!
I have setup the following jsfiddle to demonstrate the UI: http://jsfiddle.net/X8swt/29/
I managed to solve my problem with the following function:
$('div fieldset').each(function() {
// Disable all none checked inputs
$(this).find('input:not(:checked)').checkboxradio().checkboxradio("disable").checkboxradio("refresh");
// Grab the selected input
var selectedElement = $(this).find('input:checked');
// Calculate the remaining children that can be selected
var remaining = (limit - totalChildern);
// Enable all inputs less than the selected input
$.each($(selectedElement).parent().prevAll().find('input'), function() {
$(this).checkboxradio().checkboxradio("enable").checkboxradio("refresh");
});
// Enable up to the remaining boxes past the selected input
$.each($(selectedElement).parent().nextAll().slice(0,remaining).find('input'), function() {
$(this).checkboxradio().checkboxradio("enable").checkboxradio("refresh");
});
});
Please feel free to comment or critique my solution.
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