Use input[type="checkbox"]

AngularJs overrides a few standard HTML elements as element based directives. Most of these are HTML5 input types, which come with a few extra attributes that are really clever and powerful. I was completely unaware of these until I started trawling through the documentation. Once I started looking into them I couldn't believe how useful these are, and I'm quite annoyed that I haven't made better use of them in my commercial products before now. There's too much to talk about in one blog post, so I'll make the next few posts about these. Form has some extra gubbins that deserve talking about separately, and I think that having some understanding of the input types will help with understanding them better. I'll start with the checkbox.