I'm using jQuery Chosen and I need to put every option text in an array from a multiple select's dropdown.
I can easily get all values in an array with this:
<select id="select_custom" data-placeholder="Choose a city" style="width:50%;" class="chosen-processed" multiple>
<option value="cty01">New York</option>
<option value="cty02">Madrid</option>
<option value="cty03">Montreal</option>
<option value="cty04">Paris</option>
<option value="cty05">Berlin</option>
</select>
var select_custom = jQuery("#select_custom");
select_custom.change(function(){
var values = select_custom.chosen().val();
});
And depending on what option is selected, it will return an array of values like this:
['cty01', 'cty03', 'cty04']
What would be the equivalent of this to get the text instead of the value?
['New York', 'Montreal', 'Paris']
Thanks in advance for your help!
var select_custom = jQuery("#select_custom");
select_custom.change(function(){
var values = select_custom.chosen().val();
var labels = [];
for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
var label = select_custom.find('option[value="'+values[i]+'"]').text();
labels.push(label);
}
console.log(labels);
});
We're basically looping through each of the values, searching the <select> field for <option> tags matching the value and then pushing it to the labels array.
You can use map function
https://api.jquery.com/jquery.map/
$("#select_custom").change(function() {
var text = $(this).find('option:selected').toArray().map(item => item.text).join();
console.clear();
console.log(text);
$("#result").text(text);
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="select_custom" data-placeholder="Choose a city" style="width:50%;" class="chosen-processed" multiple>
<option value="cty01">New York</option>
<option value="cty02">Madrid</option>
<option value="cty03">Montreal</option>
<option value="cty04">Paris</option>
<option value="cty05">Berlin</option>
</select>
<div id="result"></div>var select_custom = jQuery("#select_custom");
var arr = [];
select_custom.change(function(){
var text = $('#select_custom option:selected').text();
if(!arr.includes(text)) {
arr.push(text);
}
console.log(arr);
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="select_custom" data-placeholder="Choose a city" style="width:50%;" class="chosen-processed" multiple>
<option value="cty01">New York</option>
<option value="cty02">Madrid</option>
<option value="cty03">Montreal</option>
<option value="cty04">Paris</option>
<option value="cty05">Berlin</option>
</select>