I am using the Jquery Chosen plugin here I want to allow maximum number of options one. in drop-down it have many option, even if I submit with more then one option it should throw the error like please select one option only.
Here in this scenario i want to allow only one option in multi-select dropdown. I'm unable to control the one option anyone can you please help me how to validation the option in multi-select.
$('.chosen-select').chosen()
.on('change', function(evt, params) {
max_selected_options = 1;
});<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.min.css" integrity="sha512-yVvxUQV0QESBt1SyZbNJMAwyKvFTLMyXSyBHDO4BG5t7k/Lw34tyqlSDlKIrIENIzCl+RVUNjmCPG+V/GMesRw==" crossorigin="anonymous" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-rMGGF4wg1R73ehtnxXBt5mbUfN9JUJwbk21KMlnLZDJh7BkPmeovBuddZCENJddHYYMkCh9hPFnPmS9sspki8g==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<select data-placeholder="Choose..." class="chosen-select" multiple="" name="milestone">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
</select>Just remove the multiple attribute on select tag. here is an example:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.min.css" integrity="sha512-yVvxUQV0QESBt1SyZbNJMAwyKvFTLMyXSyBHDO4BG5t7k/Lw34tyqlSDlKIrIENIzCl+RVUNjmCPG+V/GMesRw==" crossorigin="anonymous" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chosen/1.8.7/chosen.jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-rMGGF4wg1R73ehtnxXBt5mbUfN9JUJwbk21KMlnLZDJh7BkPmeovBuddZCENJddHYYMkCh9hPFnPmS9sspki8g==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<form id="myForm">
<select data-placeholder="Choose..." multiple class="chosen-select" name="milestone">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
<script>
let choosen = $(".chosen-select").chosen({width: "200px"});
$('#myForm').on('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
const form = e.target;
const milestones = $(form.elements.milestone).val();
if(milestones.length > 1) alert('error');
else alert('success')
})
</script>