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title: Checkbox Blade component
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## Overview
You can use the checkbox component to render a checkbox input that can be used to toggle a boolean value:
```blade
```
## Triggering the error state of the checkbox
The checkbox has special styling that you can use if it is invalid. To trigger this styling, you can use either Blade or Alpine.js.
To trigger the error state using Blade, you can pass the `valid` attribute to the component, which contains either true or false based on if the checkbox is valid or not:
```blade