WorkingWithMultipleSelectBoxes

Basic Scheme

The basic scheme was to adapt the code found at this website: http://www.mredkj.com/tutorials/tutorial004.html so it could be called and work with any pair of select and input boxes. Noddy stuff maybe but.....it was new to me so I thought I would share.

The Group

This forms the list of items for the drop down. From what I can tell, the <noautolink> is needed if the items in the list resolve to WikiWords which names of registered wiki users do.

• Set MULTISELECTGROUP = Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Apple Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Pear Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Sultana Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Raison Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Banana

The Form

A simple HTML form and the use of onclick to update the input variable with the current state of the selection.

Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Apple Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Pear Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Sultana Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Raison Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Banana

Second form

This shows a second form working independantly using the same JavaScript? function.

Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Apple Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Pear Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Sultana Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Raison Sandbox.ExperimentationWithListFunctions Banana

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You might like to look at using FormPlugin - it makes all this stuff simpler

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Apr 2009

Thanks for the note. Agreed - but this is for the non-Admins like me who are on systems where the FormPlugin is not installed. I will ask for it....

-- NeilGood - 05 Apr 2009

Updated so it works with IE6 - I needed to a value in for each option and also change onclick to onchange - I got lulled into a false sense of security with Mozilla......

-- NeilGood - 16 Apr 2009