I'm having trouble with dynamically selecting an option in another mulitiple dropdown using Bootstrap-select. I want to append the item selected in "box one" to the ones already selected in "box two".
I have been able to selected multiple ones by manually adding them:
$('select#one').on('change', function() {
$('#two').selectpicker('val', ['TestA','TestB','','TestC']);
$('#two').selectpicker('refresh');
});
and grab the ones already selected:
$('select#one').on('change', function() {
var existingValues = $("#two").val() || [];
alert(existingValues);
});
the issue is that I can't seem to add all this together. This doesn't work, but it shows what I'm looking for:
$('select#one').on('change', function() {
var selectedOption = $(this).find(":selected").text();
var existingValues = $("#two").val() || [];
var newValues = selectedOption+','+existingValues;
var newValues = '\''+newValues.replace(/,/g, '\',\'')+'\''; //didnt help
alert(newValues);
$('#two').selectpicker('val', [newValues]);
$('#two').selectpicker('refresh');
});
Fiddle that work, but replaces values instead of adding it to the selected ones: https://jsfiddle.net/3tx8mzqn/
This works.
$("#one").on("change",function(event, clickedIndex, newValue, oldValue){
var select2values = $("#two").val();
var value = $(this).val();
if(select2values.indexOf(value)==-1)
{
select2values.push(value);
$("#two").val(select2values);
}
$("#two").selectpicker('refresh');
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-select/1.12.4/js/bootstrap-select.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-select/1.12.4/css/bootstrap-select.min.css">
<select class="selectpicker" data-style="btn-danger" data-width="150px" title="box one" id="one" name="one" required>
<option value="TestA">TestA</option>
<option value="TestB">TestB</option>
<option value="TestC">TestC</option>
<option value="TestD">TestD</option>
<option value="TestE">TestE</option>
<option value="TestF">TestF</option>
</select>
<select class="selectpicker" data-style="btn-primary" data-width="fit" multiple title="box two" id="two" name="two" required>
<option value="TestA">TestA</option>
<option value="TestB">TestB</option>
<option value="TestC">TestC</option>
<option value="TestD">TestD</option>
<option value="TestE">TestE</option>
<option value="TestF">TestF</option>
</select>