.deleteitem from a dropdown menu

[Former Community Member]

I have a checkbox that will add 5 items to a dropdown when it is clicked. I would like to be able to delete the newly added items (5 of them), when a different checkbox is selected.

Code for adding:

DropDown2.addItem("123")

DropDown2.addItem("456")

DropDown2.addItem("789")

DropDown2.addItem("ABC")

DropDown2.addItem("DEF")

I beleive that code is correct, but I am having diffuclty with removing those items. I am using "DropDown2.deleteItem", just not sure of the syntax. I know you need to specify the index in order to delete, but it is not working. Dropdown2 has 5 items already, and I'm adding an additional 5 when the checkbox is clicked. My question would be how would I delete those newly added choices? Thanks

[Srini_Dhulipall]

Try like this..

for(var i=4;i<DropDown2.length;i++){

     DropDown2.deleteItem(i);

}

Thanks

Srini

[Former Community Member]

Didnt work.

Choices 1-5 are the items already in the dropdown

Choices 6 -10 are the items that I am adding.

It deleted choices 5,7, and 9. Very odd, any ideas?

Just to clarrify again, i would like items 6-10 to be removed. Thanks

[Srini_Dhulipall · Accepted solution]

You need a While loop to achieve this..

Below code should work..

var intCount = DropDown2.length;

while (intCount>5){
DropDown2.deleteItem(intCount-1);
intCount = DropDown2.length;
}

Thanks

Srini

[Former Community Member]

It worked. Thanks a bunch!