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Single variable multiple select box

Sep 25th, 2008

Hi,

I created a multiple select box wich i would like to have one variable with all the results selected on the multiple select box such as variable_name = "result1|result2|result3"

This is what i have so far:

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oSelect = document.getElementById ('s1');
var iNumSelected = 0;
 
   for (var iCount=0; oSelect.options[iCount]; iCount++) {
        if (oSelect.options[iCount].selected == true) {
            iNumSelected ++;
            alert(oSelect[iCount].value); // this part alerts all the result within the loop
        }
   }
oSelect = document.getElementById ('s1');
var iNumSelected = 0;

   for (var iCount=0; oSelect.options[iCount]; iCount++) {
        if (oSelect.options[iCount].selected == true) {
            iNumSelected ++;
            alert(oSelect[iCount].value); // this part alerts all the result within the loop
        }
   }

Now what i exactly need is to have a variable called "test" outside of the loop wich i have all the selected results separated with an "|", so that when i do alert(test) displays all results as a one result.

Hope someone can help

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Re: Single variable multiple select box

Sep 25th, 2008

Declare a variable 'test' outside the loop and inside the loop append the value of the selected option along with a '|' to `test'. Try it. Did you get the desired result? If no, then why? What seems to be missing here? What do you think needs to be done to make it work the way you expect?

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Re: Single variable multiple select box

Sep 26th, 2008

Hi, thanks for the reply but that's my problem on how to append everything on the variable , on php i usually do $test .= $array_var."|"; and outside the loop i just do echo $test, now how's that done in javascript?

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Re: Single variable multiple select box

Sep 26th, 2008

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oSelect = document.getElementById ('s1');
var iNumSelected = 0;
var str="";
   for (var iCount=0; oSelect.options[iCount]; iCount++) {
        if (oSelect.options[iCount].selected == true) {
            iNumSelected ++;
            str+= "|" + oSelect.options[iCount].value
        }
   }
alert(str);
oSelect = document.getElementById ('s1');
var iNumSelected = 0;
var str="";
   for (var iCount=0; oSelect.options[iCount]; iCount++) {
        if (oSelect.options[iCount].selected == true) {
            iNumSelected ++;
            str+= "|" + oSelect.options[iCount].value
        }
   }
alert(str);

Last edited by cscgal; Sep 26th, 2008 at 7:39 pm. Reason: Added code tags

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Re: Single variable multiple select box

Sep 26th, 2008

Hi mohammed thanks for your answer, i tried that but it says object expetcted when i run the script. if i remove str+= to str= it works but it doesn't show all results.

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Re: Single variable multiple select box

Sep 26th, 2008

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script>
function show()
{
	var ss= document.getElementById('s1');
	var len= ss.options.length;
	var str="";
	var j=0;
	for(var i=0;i<len;i++){		
		if(ss.options[i].selected == true)
		{			
		if(j == 0)
			str= ss.options[i].innerHTML;
		else
			str += '|' + ss.options[i].innerHTML;
		j++;
		}
	}
	alert(str);
}
</script>
 
</HEAD>
 
<BODY>
	<select id="s1" size=3 multiple>
		<option> Raja1 </option>
		<option> Raja2 </option>
		<option> Raja3 </option>
		<option> Raja4 </option>
		<option> Raja5 </option>
	</select>
	<div>
	<input type="button" onclick="show();">
	</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<script>
function show()
{
	var ss= document.getElementById('s1');
	var len= ss.options.length;
	var str="";
	var j=0;
	for(var i=0;i<len;i++){		
		if(ss.options[i].selected == true)
		{			
		if(j == 0)
			str= ss.options[i].innerHTML;
		else
			str += '|' + ss.options[i].innerHTML;
		j++;
		}
	}
	alert(str);
}
</script>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
	<select id="s1" size=3 multiple>
		<option> Raja1 </option>
		<option> Raja2 </option>
		<option> Raja3 </option>
		<option> Raja4 </option>
		<option> Raja5 </option>
	</select>
	<div>
	<input type="button" onclick="show();">
	</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>