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Is there a way to grey out certain options in a dropdown list/checkboxes, based on conditional logic?

By: b kn | Asked: 07/26/2022
Forums › Category: How-to › Is there a way to grey out certain options in a dropdown list/checkboxes, based on conditional logic?
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b kn asked 3 years ago

Hi,
Is there a way for some options in a dropdown list/checkboxes to be greyed out (not temporarily removed), based on what the user selects in a previous radio buttons field?
Thanks

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Chris Adams Staff answered 3 years ago

You can do this with JS or jQuery.
You can disable any option in a dropdown by adding the 'disabled' attribute to it and you can do this conditionally with jQuery quite easily.
There isn't an example of this in the FF KB but there are some other examples that you could combine & edit to achieve what you need.
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/javascript-examples/
 

b kn replied 3 years ago

Thanks - would this work for just greying it out (ie the user can still see the option but cannot select it) or would it mean they can't see the option altogether?

Chris Adams Staff replied 3 years ago

<p>Yes this would mean users can still see the option but it would be greyed out and can't be selected.</p>

b kn replied 3 years ago

Thanks

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Chris Adams Staff answered 3 years ago

This basic example will get the value from a Radio Button field and disable the same value in a dropdown.
Change 804 to the field ID of the radio button and ht4d3 to the field KEY of the dropdown.

<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
  $('input[name="item_meta[804]"]').change(function(){
    var val1 = $(this).val();
    $("#field_ht4d3 option:contains('" + val1 + "')").attr("disabled","disabled");
    $("#field_ht4d3 option:not(:contains('" + val1 + "'))").removeAttr("disabled","disabled");
  });
});
</script>

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