Can you display the 'Text' that's been selected in a multi Select input?

[Philip_J]

Hey All,

Just wanting to see how i can display the ‘text’ option from a multi-select input. Naturally i can bind the value of the input to a variable, but I want to display the text option that the user selected.

I.e. “Here’s what you selected earlier. Di you want to change any details?”

Any ideas?

I’ve tried to create a DB query that then uses the value of the select input to return a query with the names, but I was running into apparent issues using the IN clause and arrays in custom queries.

Cheers,
Phil

[sid]

This should help:

Get Selected Text from Select Control

Hi. I have found my self using the where functions a lot of times when I need to access the text part of a dynamically bound select html control. When we select something in the list based on text, the value part is usually an id. And this is the same that is returned when we use select1.value. In many cases, I find that I have some other part of the page where I need to show the text part of the selected item in select control. To do this, I use where on the original binding source server c…

[Philip_J]

Thanks @sid I’ll look into it tomorrow.