How to prevent the parent node from being checked on a hierarchy when it has a single child node?

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As you can see on the image below, when marking the "Guest" all parents that have a single child gets checked too. But I actually want just the "Guest" checked and its parents unchecked as in the "Account's manager"

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '12 at 22:05

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The "Accounts Manager" box is in the indeterminate state, meaning that all of its children are not all checked or all unchecked. When there is only one child, though, the state can never be indeterminate since all of the one children are either checked or not. So what you're asking for doesn't make sense...

I guess you could add another child with display:none or something to provoke an indeterminate state, but I don't know why you'd want to do that.

answered Mar 15 '12 at 22:05

Niet the Dark Absol

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It does makes sense on my context. I'm checking a Guest's role, not its parents. And I want the `indetermined` state to shows the user that he can not check the parents once it has checked a child (if he does check, now all children will be checked, as it inherit the role's children privileges). But I got your point. – Keyne Viana Mar 15 '12 at 22:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 22:08

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stopPropagation();

$("whatever[type='checkbox']").click(function(event){
  event.preventDefault(); don't bubble the check boxes to the parent.
});

answered Mar 15 '12 at 22:08

Ohgodwhy

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Is it for the Dynatree? I did not get it... Have you tested? – Keyne Viana Mar 16 '12 at 16:59
Try $("#tree").dynatree({ selectMode: '1' }); – Ohgodwhy Mar 16 '12 at 17:12
I want the selectMode 3 so that the checkboxes can turn into `indeterminated` state as in the image for the "Account's manager". – Keyne Viana Mar 16 '12 at 17:48

How to prevent the parent node from being checked on a hierarchy when it has a single child node?

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