Html select multiple get all values at onchange event

user3065901 picture user3065901 · May 21, 2015 · Viewed 26.7k times · Source

I have a form with a select multiple. I want to get all selected values at onchange event but i dont know if this is possible. I think "this.value" only returns the last element selected.

Is it possible to get all the elements selected as array at onchange??

Thanks in advance.

<select name="myarray[]" id="myarray" class="select2-select req" style="width: 90%;" onChange="get_values(this.value)" multiple>
    {foreach key=key item=value from=$myarray}
         <option value="{$key}" >{$value}</option>
    {/foreach}
</select>

Answer

Thomas Theunen picture Thomas Theunen · May 21, 2015

This example might help without jQuery:

function getSelectedOptions(sel) {
  var opts = [],
    opt;
  var len = sel.options.length;
  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    opt = sel.options[i];

    if (opt.selected) {
      opts.push(opt);
      alert(opt.value);
    }
  }

  return opts;
}
<select name="myarray[]" id="myarray" class="select2-select req" style="width: 90%;" onChange="getSelectedOptions(this)" multiple>
  <option value="1">1</option>
  <option value="2">2</option>
  <option value="3">3</option>
</select>