dude I could select multiples in the top box by dragging… Was that your example?

dragging or using the shift key gives you a range. you need to use the “ctrl” if you just want to select “dime” and “dove”.

ps. it took me a few tries to get all the code working and looking nice within this post, so you might have seen it when it was still a little ripe.

Nice.

In a usability test with South Carolina factory workers, 2 of 30 participants knew ctrl-click.

To solve this, I came up with a checkbox standin for a mutli-select:
http://uzilla.net/uzilla/my/widg…ts/multiselect/

great code for simple multiselect javascript control!!

thanks a ton…it worked great :)

Nice. Users saws directly how to select multiple values

Thanks for the code. I was even able to throw in some asp to preload values to the ones previously selected by the user.

Ben, excellent. I should probably update the style since I realized after the fact that I’d matched the old Win2k style (pixel for pixel) rather than the WinXP style.

Mind if I adapt (with credit) this control for a commercial forms application?

Matthew, definitely go for it, no attribution required, but always appreciated. In fact if whatever you create is something I can link to, let me know so I can add it to the post.

Works great! Very clever.

Very nice! I can see only one usability down-side: It’s much harder now to select all elements, e.g using the mouse. I think that this combined with a “select all” and maybe a “select invert” would excel this script.

how do you validate this select box to make sure at least one value is selected?

great code for simple multiselect javascript control!!

You can also use the code below:

<script>
var x = document.getElementsByName("FIELDNAME");
x[0].multiple = true;
</script>

Hi Justin,

Well, I’m a year+ late on adding my comment but as comments are still open, I thought you wouldn’t mind.

I’ve also come up with a JavaScript widgit to reengineer selectLists (multi-selectLists especially).

A demo is available for all interested parties…

Regards,
Brian

I used your code to create the checkbox multiselect but I cann’t seem to figure out how to submit it to a table it puts array in the field. any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch. Your example worked great, and is being used in my current project!