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---
parts:
- Checkbox Group
- Use Cases
title: 'Checkbox Group: Use Cases'
eleventyNavigation:
key: 'Checkbox Group: Use Cases'
order: 20
parent: Checkbox Group
title: Use Cases
---
# Checkbox Group: Use Cases
```js script
import { html } from '@mdjs/mdjs-preview';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-checkbox-group.js';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-checkbox-indeterminate.js';
import '@lion/ui/define/lion-checkbox.js';
```
## Model value
The `modelValue` of a `lion-checkbox-group` is an array containing the `choiceValues` of the `lion-checkbox` elements that have been checked.
Given the scientists example above, say that we were to select the first and last options
(Archimedes & Marie Curie).
Then the `modelValue` of the `lion-checkbox-group` will look as follows:
```js
const groupElement = [parent].querySelector('lion-checkbox-group');
groupElement.modelValue;
=> ["Archimedes", "Marie Curie"];
```
## The `name` attribute
The `name` attribute of a `lion-checkbox-group` automatically gets assigned to its `lion-checkbox` children. You can also specify names for the `lion-checkbox` elements, but if this name is different from the name assigned to `lion-checkbox-group`, then an exception will be thrown.
Our recommendation would be to set the `name` attribute only on the `lion-checkbox-group` and not on the `lion-checkbox` elements.
## Example
```html
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Francis Bacon" .choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Marie Curie" .choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
## Pre-select
You can pre-select options by targeting the `modelValue` object of the option and setting the `checked` property to `true`.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Francis Bacon" .choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}" checked></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Marie Curie" .choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
## Disabled
You can disable the entire group by setting the `disabled` attribute on the `<lion-checkbox-group>`.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists" disabled>
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Francis Bacon" .choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Marie Curie" .choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
## Label
You can use `slot="label"` instead of the `label` attribute for defining more complex labels, such as containing screen reader only text or an anchor.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}">
<label slot="label"
><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes" target="_blank">Archimedes</a></label
>
</lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox .choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}">
<label slot="label"
><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon" target="_blank">Francis Bacon</a></label
>
</lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox .choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}">
<label slot="label"
><a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie" target="_blank">Marie Curie</a></label
>
</lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
## Help text
You can add help text on each checkbox with `help-text` attribute on the `<lion-checkbox>`.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox
label="Archimedes"
.choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"
help-text="Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer"
></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox
label="Francis Bacon"
.choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}"
help-text="Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England"
></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox
label="Marie Curie"
.choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}"
help-text="Marie Skłodowska Curie born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity"
></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
## Event
You can listen to the `model-value-changed` event whenever the value of the checkbox group is changed.
```js preview-story
export const event = ({ shadowRoot }) => html`
<lion-checkbox-group
name="scientists[]"
label="Favorite scientists"
@model-value-changed=${ev =>
(ev.target.parentElement.querySelector('#selectedDinosaur').innerText = JSON.stringify(
ev.target.modelValue,
null,
4,
))}
>
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Francis Bacon" .choiceValue="${'Francis Bacon'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Marie Curie" .choiceValue="${'Marie Curie'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-group>
<br />
<span>Selected scientists: <strong id="selectedDinosaur">N/A</strong></span>
`;
```
## Indeterminate
A `checkbox-indeterminate`'s value is neither true nor false, but is instead indeterminate, meaning that its state cannot be determined or stated in pure binary terms, based on it's `checkbox` children.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate label="Old Greek scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Plato" .choiceValue="${'Plato'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Pythagoras" .choiceValue="${'Pythagoras'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate label="17th Century scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Isaac Newton" .choiceValue="${'Isaac Newton'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Galileo Galilei" .choiceValue="${'Galileo Galilei'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
The `checkbox-indeterminate` can have another `checkbox-indeterminate` as a child.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate label="Scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Isaac Newton" .choiceValue="${'Isaac Newton'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Galileo Galilei" .choiceValue="${'Galileo Galilei'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate label="Old Greek scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Plato" .choiceValue="${'Plato'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Pythagoras" .choiceValue="${'Pythagoras'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```
You can also use `mixed-state` attribute so your indeterminate checkbox toggles through three states (indeterminate, checked, unchecked), where for indeterminate state the old children states are restored when you toggle back into this.
```html preview-story
<lion-checkbox-group name="scientists[]" label="Favorite scientists">
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate mixed-state label="Scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Isaac Newton" .choiceValue="${'Isaac Newton'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Galileo Galilei" .choiceValue="${'Galileo Galilei'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox-indeterminate mixed-state label="Old Greek scientists">
<lion-checkbox label="Archimedes" .choiceValue="${'Archimedes'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Plato" .choiceValue="${'Plato'}"></lion-checkbox>
<lion-checkbox label="Pythagoras" .choiceValue="${'Pythagoras'}"></lion-checkbox>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
</lion-checkbox-indeterminate>
</lion-checkbox-group>
```