jqueryjquery-uijquery-selectorsmulti-selectjquery-ui-multiselect

Multiselect dependent dropdown for country and state


kindly help how to make this multiple option select for country and state, below code in single select is working fine but i need to make this multi-select dependent dropdown.

below code is complete code working for single select but i dont know how to make it work in multiselect

<form class="form-signin" method="post" id="serchform" action="search-profile-result.php?page_id=1">
    
<label for="country">Country</label>
<select class="form-control" id="country" name="country[]" required="required" onchange="setStates(this);" multiple>
    
<option value="USA" label="USA">USA</option>
<option value="UK" label="UK">UK</option>
<option value="Canada" label="Canada">Canada</option> </select>
    
<label for="state">State</label>
<select id="state" name="state[]" class="form-control" required="required" multiple>
<option disabled>Select Country First</option>  </select>

</form>

<script>
var states = new Array();

states['USA'] = new Array('Alabama','Alaska','Arizona','Other');
states['UK'] = new Array('Aberdeenshire','Angus','Antrim','Other');
states['Canada'] = new Array('Alberta','British-Columbia','Manitoba','Other');

function setStates() {
countrSel = document.getElementById('country');
stateList = states[countrSel.value];
changeSelect('state', stateList, stateList);
}
function changeSelect(fieldID, newOptions, newValues) {
selectField = document.getElementById(fieldID);
selectField.options.length = 0;
for (i=0; i<newOptions.length; i++) {
selectField.options[selectField.length] = new Option(newOptions[i], newValues[i]);
}
}
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
if (oldonload) {
oldonload();
}
func();
}
}
}

addLoadEvent(function() {
setStates();
}); 
</script>


Solution

  • Consider the following.

    $(function() {
      //Populate an Object: { Country: [ States... ] }
      var states = {};
      states['USA'] = new Array('Alabama', 'Alaska', 'Arizona', 'Other');
      states['UK'] = new Array('Aberdeenshire', 'Angus', 'Antrim', 'Other');
      states['Canada'] = new Array('Alberta', 'British-Columbia', 'Manitoba', 'Other');
    
      $("#country").change(function() {
        // Array Variable to contain all selected
        var selected = [];
        // Iterate all selected items
        $.each($(this).val(), function(i, country) {
          selected = selected.concat(states[country]);
        });
        // Remove previous options
        $("#state > option").remove();
        if (selected.length === 0) {
          // Add placeholder and Stop
          $("#state").append("<option disabled>Select Country First</option>");
          return false;
        }
        selected.sort();
        // Populate Options
        $.each(selected, function(i, state) {
          $("<option>").html(state).appendTo("#state");
        });
      });
    });
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <form class="form-signin" method="post" id="serchform" action="search-profile-result.php?page_id=1">
      <label for="country">Country</label>
      <select class="form-control" id="country" name="country[]" required="required" multiple>
        <option value="USA" label="USA">USA</option>
        <option value="UK" label="UK">UK</option>
        <option value="Canada" label="Canada">Canada</option>
      </select>
      <label for="state">State</label>
      <select id="state" name="state[]" class="form-control" required="required" multiple>
        <option disabled>Select Country First</option>
      </select>
    </form>

    Summary

    When the User selects one or more Countries, a sorted list of States is populated based on the Users selections. If no Countries are selected, a disabled option reminding the User to select a Country.

    In JavaScript, Arrays cannot have named indexes, only Integers. So we use an Object to store the States, Indexed by their countries.