#jQuery Selectopoly
Selectopoly is a jQuery plugin that replaces a multiple value select field with several single value select fields that can be added and removed as required. This allows easier selection of values, with improved visibility of selected values.
##Requirements
##Installation
Copy the Selectopoly file (either the uncompressed or the minified one) to your resources directory and then simply link to the file in your HTML document.
<script src="jquery-selectopoly.js" type="text/javascript"></script>To get up and running quickly, you can set Selectopoly to automatically match all select elements with the multiple attribute within the document by adding "?auto" to the end of the script element's src attribute.
<script src="jquery-selectopoly.js?auto" type="text/javascript"></script>##Using Selectopoly
To run Selectopoly, simply run the function on any multi-value select elements matched with jQuery, like so:
$('select[multiple]').selectopoly();Remember that if you want to retrieve all of the selected values, the name attribute must include square brackets, e.g. "field_name[]". If these are not present, the browser will only return the first selected value.
##Released under the BSD License
Copyright © 2014 Daniel Farrelly
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