You can either upgrade to Laravel 9 and use @checked:

<input type="checkbox"
        name="active"
        value="active"
        @checked(old('active', $user->active)) />

or do it manually in Laravel 8:

<input type="checkbox"
        name="active"
        value="active"
        {{ old('active', $user->active) ? 'checked' : '' }} />

@geowrgetudor In my case, beacause this is an add form, not and edit one:

<input class="mt-1" type="checkbox" id="featured" name="featured" value="featured" {{ old('featured') ? 'checked' : '' }}>

You can get the old data for the checkbox as:

<input class="mt-1" type="checkbox" id="featured" name="featured" value="featured" {{ old('featured') == 'featured' ? 'checked' : '' }}>

The solution is to match the value with the old('featured').

@faisal This creates another bug: the checkbox is always checked.

@ajax30 can you paste the actual code snippet.

I duplicated the solution as-is on my local project and it works as expected.

@faisal Here is the Github repo. Feel free to contribute, it is an open-source application. It's for all of us. And I believe you can bring value to it. :)

@ajax30 I would like to contribute

@suhailparad I would love it if you did. Whatever you want to do, make a fresh branch from main and then a pull request. Thanks!

@ajax30 I will do that.

@suhailparad I have not seen any new pull reqests. :)

@ajax30 i will do that today

@suhailparad Please help me with this question. Thanks!