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JavaScript: Count optgroups of select

Using JavaScript, how can I count the number of optgroups of a specific select?

Please do NOT use jQuery for this.

This does NOT work:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Demo</title>
</head>
<body>

<select name="StateProvinceList" id="StateProvinceList">
  <option value="">&nbsp; --- Please Select ---</option>
  <optgroup id="USAStates"  label="USA States">
	<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
	<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
	<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup id="USATerritories" label="USA Territories">
	<option value="AS">American Samoa</option>
	<option value="GU">Guam</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup id="USAForces" label="USA Armed Forces">
	<option value="AA">Armed Forces Americas</option>
	<option value="AP">Armed Forces Pacific</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup id="Canada" label="Province / Territory">
	<option value="AB">Alberta</option>
	<option value="BC">British Columbia</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

<select name="zzz" id="zzz">
  <option value="">&nbsp; --- Please Select ---</option>
  <optgroup id="x"  label="x">
	<option value="1">1</option>
	<option value="2">2</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

<script type="text/javascript">

  var StateProvinceList = document.getElementById('StateProvinceList');
  alert('Number of options: ' + StateProvinceList.options.length);
  alert('Number of groups: ' + StateProvinceList.optgroups.length);

</script>

</body>
</html>

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Ryan Chong

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hankknight

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No that does not work. It does count the optgroups however it also counts top-level select elements so the answer is not correct. This is dynamic so there could be any number of optgroups and any number of top-level select elements.

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David S.

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