Jquery checkboxes status

jq-checkboxes-status

//give all the check boxes a class and pass the class name as a string to the function and it will return if any of the checkbox was checked.

function checkboxesstatus(cls) {
    var el = $('input.'+cls);
    var boxstatus = 0;
    el.each(function(){
		if($(this).is(':checked')) {
		     boxstatus++;		
		}
	});
    return boxstatus;
}