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Select All and De-Select All fields in Dropdown using Coral UI JavaScript in AEM by Nikhil Kumar

Abstract

In this article we will try out a custom Coral UI Javascript in AEM and all a functionality to a dropdown where, dropdown will have n number of values and will have Select All and De-select All option as well in the dropdown. This is really helpful when you have lot’s of options in a dropdown and you have to select all and de-select all.

First create a simple AEM dropdown field with multiselect functionality and add some 5-6 options in the dropdown and then add two option with following text and value combination which will help us select all fields in dropdown as well as de-select all fields in dropdown.


NOTE: The name property used in this article is ./country for the dropdown.



Select All option:

text: Select All (You can keep any name as it just shows on the UI).
value: all (We are keeping all here because we will be using the same value in JS)

Deselect All option:

text: De-Select All (You can keep any name as it just shows on the UI).
value: none (We are keeping none here because we will be using the same value in JS)

Now create a clientlibrary in AEM with category name as cq.myproject.select-deselect. And then attach this clientlib at the cq:dialog node of the component by adding the following property at cq:dialog node.

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