Element.ariaMultiSelectable

The ariaMultiSelectable property of the Element interface reflects the value of the aria-multiselectable attribute, which indicates that the user may select more than one item from the current selectable descendants.

Note: Where possible use an HTML <select> element as this has built in semantics and does not require ARIA attributes.

Syntax

var ariaMultiSelectable = element.ariaMultiSelectable;
element.ariaMultiSelectable = ariaMultiSelectable

Value

A DOMString with one of the following values:

"true"

More than one item may be selected at a time.

"false"

Only one item may be selected.

Examples

In this example the aria-multiselectable attribute on the element with an ID of listbox1 is set to "true" indicating that this input accepts multiple selected items. Using ariaMultiSelectable we update the value to "false".

<div role="listbox" tabindex="0" id="listbox1"
  aria-multiselectable="true" aria-labelledby="listbox1label" aria-activedescendant="listbox1-1">
  <div role="option" id="listbox1-1" class="selected" aria-selected="true">Green</div>
  <div role="option" id="listbox1-2">Orange</div>
  <div role="option" id="listbox1-3">Red</div<
</div>
let el = document.getElementById('listbox1');
console.log(el.ariaMultiSelectable); // "true"
el.ariaMultiSelectable = "false"
console.log(el.ariaMultiSelectable); // "false"

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
ariaMultiSelectable
81
81
No
No
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12.1
81
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No
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12.2
13.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/ariaMultiSelectable