select multiple rows with checkboxes like GMAIL Example 1

Are you looking for shift-select multiple checkboxes like GMail?

solution: This thing can be done by jquery. see the following example

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk1" class="chkbox" value="1" />Check 1<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk2" class="chkbox" value="2" />Check 2<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk3" class="chkbox" value="3" />Check 3<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk4" class="chkbox" value="4" />Check 4<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk5" class="chkbox" value="5" />Check 5<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk6" class="chkbox" value="6" />Check 6<br/>
<input type="checkbox" id="id_chk7" class="chkbox" value="7" />Check 7<br/>


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var lastChecked = null;
$(document).ready(function() {
var $chkboxes = $('.chkbox');
$chkboxes.click(function(e) {
if(!lastChecked) {
lastChecked = this;
return;
}
if(e.shiftKey) {
var start = $chkboxes.index(this);
var end = $chkboxes.index(lastChecked);
$chkboxes.slice(Math.min(start,end), Math.max(start,end)+ 1).attr('checked', lastChecked.checked);}
lastChecked = this;
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>