Limiting # of selections when using visual multi select widget

  • asmyer
    Asked on December 9, 2019 at 5:35 PM

    I have a list of about 20 potential workshop topics and I'd like to survey attendees to select the 5 that are of most interest to them. I was thinking of using the visual multi select widget, but I can't figure out how to add a rule to limit it to just 5 selections. Is that possible? Or is there another widget that would work better?


    https://widgets.jotform.com/widget/visual_multi_select


  • jherwin
    Replied on December 9, 2019 at 10:45 PM

    You can limit the selected using custom CSS code:

    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected {
    display: list-item !important;
    visibility: hidden;
    }
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected ~
    .ms-elem-selectable.ms-selected:after {
    visibility: visible;
    content: "";
    background: #fff;
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;
    opacity: .7;
    }

    Guide: How-to-Inject-CSS-Codes-to-Widgets

    Demo form: https://form.jotform.com/193428615695975

    Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.

  • asmyer
    Replied on December 10, 2019 at 3:50 PM
    That worked perfectly, thank you!
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