asked on 6/23/2015

MultiSelect jquery Select Value

How can I select the values that are selected in this multiple select via jQuery?

<select id="gender" name="gender" multiple="multiple" style="width:90.4%; padding:5px; margin:5px; color:#000000; ">
    <option value="'M'">Male</option>
    <option value="'F'">Female</option>
</select>

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I tried

gender: $("#gender").val()

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Doesn't seem to work for some reason.

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Julian Hansen

6/23/2015

Nathan Riley

6/23/2015

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Appears it is selecting my data but it's posting as an array versus just posting as 'M' or 'F'. Anyway to stop it from creating an array?

The post value shows up like this when I vardump
array (size=1)
0 => string ''M'' (length=3)

Not sure why it's turned into an array or adding additional quotes around it.

Julian Hansen

6/23/2015

Anyway to stop it from creating an array?

... as opposed to? It is a multi-select control - how else is it going to capture the multiple values selected.

The post value shows up like this when I vardump

Where is your post code?

How are you sending this through?

gender: $("#gender").val()

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Does not really make sense - in the context of the usual definition of gender?

The code is doing what it is supposed to do - tell us what you want it to do and we can take it from there.

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Julian Hansen

6/23/2015