Element: ariaMultiSelectable property
{{APIRef("DOM")}}
The ariaMultiSelectable property of the {{domxref("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
{{htmlelement("select")}}element as this has built in semantics and does not require ARIA attributes.
Value
A string 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
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Browser compatibility
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