The code below works in FF, Safari, Chrome. But IE is giving me issues.

When a checkbox is checked, I cannot get IE to detect it.

$("#checkbox_ID").change(function(){

if($('#'+$(this).attr("id")).is(':checked')){ var value = "1"; }else{ var value = "0"; } alert(value);

return false; });

Simply, I'm not getting that alert popup, as expected.
I've even tried it this way:

$("#checkbox_ID").change(function(){

if( $('#'+$(this).attr("id")'+:checked').attr('checked',false)){ var value = "1"; }else{ var value = "0"; } alert(value);

return false; });

Here's the simple checkbox input:

Anyone know if IE requires a different jquery method? or is my code just off?