Issue reading Listbox values

[Balaji1980]

Hello Everyone,

I am having issues reading values from a listbox. Basically, I am trying to get all the values from "PickList" box. The PickList field is filled from another list box without any issue. Below is the HTML and Javascript for the PickList issue.

HTML :-

<select name="PickList" multiple id="PickList" style="width:200px;height:200px"></select>

JS :-

var pickList = document.getElementById("PickList");
for(var i = 0; i < pickList.options.length; i++) 
{
alert(pickList.options[i].value);
}

The issue is the alert message always gives blank value but loops correctly. For eg. if the PicList has 4 values, then I get 4 blank alert message but not the values..!

Can someone tell me where the issue is? Thanks in advance.

[alias]

How do your options look like? Do they actually have a 'value'? E.g. <option>Lorem ipsum</option> versus <option value='someValue'>Lorem ipsum</option> - that is the only explanation I see to 'blank' values.

[Fotiman]

Also, how is the PickList field "filled from another list box"?

[Balaji1980]

Thanks for the replies....

The innerHTML of the PickList looks like this after adding 2 values:

<OPTION value="">ABC</OPTION><OPTION value="">DEF</OPTION>

The values are populated from SelectList listbox...below is the code.

var selectList = document.getElementById("SelectList");
var selectIndex = selectList.selectedIndex;
var selectOptions = selectList.options;
var pickList = document.getElementById("PickList");
var pickOptions = pickList.options;
var pickOLength = pickOptions.length;
if (selectIndex > -1)
{
pickOptions[pickOLength] = new Option(selectList[selectIndex].text);
pickOptions[pickOLength].value = selectList[selectIndex].value;
selectOptions[selectIndex] = null;
}

[Fotiman]

Instead of this:

pickOptions[pickOLength] = new Option(selectList[selectIndex].text);
pickOptions[pickOLength].value = selectList[selectIndex].value;

Try doing this:

pickOptions[pickOLength] = new Option(selectList[selectIndex].text, selectList[selectIndex].value);

[Balaji1980]

Still same result..!

<OPTION value="">ABC</OPTION>