Idiomatic jQuery to get all options in a listbox into comma-separated string?

Question

Where lb is a listbox, txtfield is a textbox, this code takes all the values of the options, puts them in an array and makes it into a comma-separated list:

var arr = [];
for (var i = 0; i < lb.length; i++) {
    arr[i] = lb.options[i].value;
}
txtfield.value = arr.join(',');

lb.options.toString() obviously doesn't work because it's an array of options (value and text). I haven't found anything more succint than this.

What's the jQuery way to do this? I tried messing around with $(lb).each() , but can't seem to get it to work in the same way.

Answer 1

txtfield.value = $(lb.options).map(function() { 
                                       return this.value; 
                                   }).get().join(',');

This uses .map() to create a jQuery object by returning the value of each option , then uses .get() to extract the Array from the object.

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EDIT: As @Nick Craver noted in the comment below, if you need to get optimal performance (with jQuery), it makes more sense to use the $.map() variation since you already have a collection. See his answer for details.

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EDIT: To get better performance, do your for loop, but cache the references to the properties. It makes a difference .

var arr = [], opts = lb.options, len = opts.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    arr[i] = opts[i].value;
}
txtfield.value = arr.join(',');

Answer 2

The jQuery version is .map() like this:

var arr = $(lb).find("option").map(function() { return this.value; }).get();
txtfield.value = arr.join(',');

Or a bit faster with $.map() like this:

var arr = $.map(lb.options, function(o) { return o.value; });
txtfield.value = arr.join(',');

However, both are significantly less efficient than a for loop, go with the plain JavaScript version you already have.

Answer 3

Look at map() ..

$('#lbID option').map(function() {
  return $(this).val();
}).get().join(',');

Answer 4

This is the jQuery equivalent to your code. There are more elegant solutions, though.

var values = [];

$(lb).children('option').each(function () {
   values.push($(this).text());
});

$(txtfield).val(values.join(','));

Answer 5

可以这样做，但是我不确定您要达到什么目标？

$('option', $(lb)).each(function() { arr.push($(this).text()) });

Answer 6

See demo here: Fiddler Demo

you can get the multiple selected option Text values with separator.

  $('#testID').change(function () { var test=$(this).find("option:selected").map(function () { return $(this).text(); }).get().join('//'); alert(test); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <select id="testID" multiple="multiple"> <option value="1">test Value1</option> <option value="2">test Value2</option> <option value="3">test Value3</option> <option value="4">test Value4</option> <option value="5">test Value5</option> <option value="6">test Value6</option> </select> <input type="button" value="Get dropdown selected Value" id="select-values"> <div id="result"></div>