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By: Rossa

Rossa — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:40:06 +0000

Hi! i was trying to use this with two listboxes with multiple selection but sincronized with ajax….not working for me….:(

By: onlyafriend

onlyafriend — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:29:31 +0000

does anyone knows how to implement buttons to move up and move down options?
actually i’m using javascript code like this:
http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/selectbox/

but i’d like to know if i can help to ‘son of multiselect’ can works with buttons to move options.
thanks

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:47:20 +0000

Nihar – it’s not really designed to be manipulated via JavaScript.

Anyway – here is some code that might do it. I have not tested it, so it may have some small bugs.

function getSelectedInputs(select_name){
var inputs=[],selected_inputs=[],els=document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’),i;
{
for(i in els)if(els[i].name==select_name+’[]‘)inputs[inputs.length]=els[i];
for(i in inputs)if(inputs[i].checked)selected_inputs[selected_inputs.length]=i;
return selected_inputs;
}

the above should return an array containing the indices of the selected inputs.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:49:47 +0000

Hi,
Can you pls let me know how to get the values of the checkboxes selected?
I can’t grab those in a java script function.
Pls make an early reply.

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:44:16 +0000

Thank you. Someday, I’ll get around to the rewrite I’ve promised, but it is good that this old code is still useful!

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:20:09 +0000

This is a great script! It does wonders for cleaning up and simplifying information collection for me.

Thanks for the time and effort. It’s very much appreciated.

By: kae

kae — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:22:32 +0000

Hi Scott, I’ve added a new function to the code. it’s called “multiselect_hasSelected(name)”. it should return true if there is a selection, and false if not. I haven’t tested it, but it should work fine (it looks okay to me).

I think it’s time I rewrote this… maybe I’ll do it tonight.