How to get the count of selected items in Kendo Multi Select Control?

Question

What is the best way to get the count of selected Items in the Kendo multi select control?

I've tried:

multiSelect.dataItems().count()

and

multiSelect.value().count()

and neither work? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Solution 1

using multiSelect.value() will give you an array of the selected items. You can then get the .length off the array:

var count = multiSelect.value().length;

http://docs.kendoui.com/api/web/multiselect#methods-value

and

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/length

Solution 2

It might help to others

var multiSelectItems = $('#MultiselectCollection').data('kendoMultiSelect');
var count = multiSelectItems .value().length;

Comments

[Jon]

if you're doing serverfiltering AND serverPaging, then the value() does't return the correct items. It will only count what's on the DOM!!!