How to add a check box column to jquery datatable

Question

I need to add a check box column to a jquery data table and make the row selectable. Once rows are selected and clicking up on submit button then the id's of selected rows should send back to the controller using java script remoting. my question is How to collect selected rows using jquery.

Visual Force Page

$('#mgtable').dataTable({
           sPaginationType: "full_numbers", "bJQueryUI" : true,"sDom": '<"H"lfr>t<"F"ip>',
           "aoColumnDefs": [
               { "aTargets":[ "mgName" ], "mData": "Name",sClass:"Name", "bAutoWidth": false },
               { "aTargets":[ "gcb" ], "mData": "CreatedBy.Name", sClass:"CBName", "bAutoWidth": false },
               { "aTargets":[ "desc" ], "mData": "Client_Group_Description__c", sClass:"CGDesc", "bAutoWidth": true }
           ],
          "fnInitComplete": function(oSettings) { 
                  MasterDetailListController1.refreshMasterGroupList(function(result, event){
                     if(event.type == 'exception') {
                        alert(event.message);         
                     } else {   
                       $('#mgtable').dataTable().fnAddData(result);         
                     }
                   });
           },
           "fnCreatedRow": function( nRow, aData, iDataIndex ) {
                                 $('td:eq(0)', nRow).html( '<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" class="checkbox" value="'+ aData.Id+'">');

                         } 

    }); 

    <table id="mgtable" class="display">
        <thead>
            <th><input type="checkbox" id="selectall"/></th>
            <th class="mgName">Master Group Name</th>
            <th class="gcb">Group Created By</th>
            <th class="desc">Description</th>
        </thead>
        <tbody></tbody>
    </table>

Apex Controller:

public with sharing class DataTableController { 
  @RemoteAction
  public static list<Client_Group__c> refreshMasterGroupList() {
    return [select id,Name,CreatedBy.Name,Client_Group_Description__c from Client__c order by Name];
  }
}

Answer 1

This code will match all the checked checkboxes of class "checkbox" add add their values in to a JavaScript array:

var ids = [];
$("input.checkbox:checked").each(function() {
    ids.push($(this).val());
});