restrict select multiple

[snehula]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to restrict a <select multiple> listbox to maximum 2 options selected? Couldn't find an answer crawling the net..

[penders]

AFAIK there is no way to do this in HTML alone. You could perhaps use JavaScript to limit the number of selections. (Ultimately you will need to validate this in your server-side script.)

[snehula]

thanks penders

[lostdreamer]

Onclick you'll have to save the selections to an array, after the change of the selection, you count the array and if there are to many values, you reset the array to what it was before.....

<select name="test" size="7" multiple="multiple" onclick="saveSelected(this)" onchange="checkSelectedValues(this, 3)">
 <option>123</option>
 <option>456</option>
 <option>789</option>
 <option>987</option>
 <option>654</option>
 <option>321</option>
</select>
<script>
var selected = [];
function saveSelected(obj) {
 // Before the new selectection, we save all the values
 selected = [];
 for(i=0;i<obj.options.length;i++) { 
 if(obj.options[i].selected) {
  selected.push(i); 
  }
 }
 }
function checkSelectedValues(obj, max) {
 // After selection we check the amount of selections
 // And reset the selection if there are to many
 if(selected.length >= max) {
 alert("To many selected values");
 // Uncheck all
 for(i=0;i<obj.options.length;i++) 
  obj.options[i].selected = false
 // Check the last known batch of options
 for(i=0;i<selected.length;i++) 
  obj.options[ selected[i] ].selected = true;
 }
 }
</script>