jQWidgets jqxListBox multipleextended Property

Last Updated : 07 Oct, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxListBox is used to illustrate a jQuery ListBox widget which comprises a list of electable elements.

The multipleextended property is used to enable or disable the multiple selections for the items of the stated listbox utilizing Shift and Ctrl keys. So, whenever the value here is set to true, multiple items can be selected by the user from the listbox by tapping on the given item and holding Shift or else Ctrl. It is of type Boolean and its default value is false.

Syntax:

To set the multipleextended property:

$("#jqxListBox").jqxListBox({multipleextended: true});

To get the multipleextended property:

var multipleextended = 
    $('#jqxListBox').jqxListBox('multipleextended');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”.jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxListBox multipleextended property in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <link rel="stylesheet" 
              href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
              type="text/css" /> 
        <script type="text/javascript"
                src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
        </script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" 
                src="jqwidgets/jqx-all.js"> 
        </script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" 
                src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
        </script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" 
                src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
        </script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" 
                src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
        </script> 
        <script type="text/javascript" 
                src="jqwidgets/jqxlistbox.js"> 
        </script> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <center> 
            <h1 style="color: green;"> 
                GeeksforGeeks 
            </h1> 
            <h3> 
                jQWidgets jqxListBox  
                multipleextended Property 
            </h3> 
            <div id="jqxLB"></div> 
            <br /> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                   style="padding: 5px 20px;" 
                   value="Boolean" /> 
            <div id="log"></div> 
        </center> 
  
        <script type="text/javascript"> 
            $(document).ready(function () { 
                var data = ["C", "CSS", "C++"]; 
  
                $("#jqxLB").jqxListBox({ 
                    source: data, 
                    width: "200px", 
                    height: "80px", 
                    multipleextended: true 
                }); 
  
                $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                    var me = $("#jqxLB").jqxListBox( 
                      "multipleextended" 
                    ); 
                    $("#log").text(me); 
                }); 
            }); 
        </script> 
    </body> 
</html>