Question

I have a view where I have the user select a email address from a modal form and update the value in the text box in the main form

   <div class="editor-label">
        <%: Html.Label("Additional Email Address") %>           
    </div>

    <div class="editor-field modADLookup">          
        <%: Html.TextBoxFor_Readonly(model => model.AdditionalEmailsSentTo, new {@class = "adEmail", style = "width:500px; height:40px;" })%>
        <%: Html.SecurityTrimmedActionButton(true, "Search Active Directory", "Index", "ActiveDirectory", null, "clsSearchButton")%>
    </div>

Suppose I select the email [e-mail], the text box loads with the value “[e-mail]”, now when I select [e-mail] the next time, it replaces the “[e-mail]” with “[e-mail]”.

What I’m looking for is a way to append the email address and have the text box retain the existing email id’s.

For example: after the 2nd selection it should have “[e-mail], [e-mail]”.

How do I do the appending in the main form?

Thanks
Sue

Answer 1

After selecting the correct value, catch the value via jquery and append it to the AdditionalEmailsSentTo textbox.

For example when you select an email you do the following:

$("#SelectListThatContainsValues").change(function() {
    var newvalue = $(this).val();
    var currentValue = $("#AdditionalEmailsSentTo").val();
    $("#AdditionalEmailsSentTo").val(currentValue + "," + newValue);
});