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>
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.