How to hide dropdown option if it is not available?

Question

I have three dropdowns. Suppose there is the combination of "M / Grey" but not "M / Red" in the name="id" dropdown. If I select "M" in the first .variant dropdown the "Red" option should not be shown in the second .variant dropdown.

$(document).ready(function () {
$('.variant').change(function(){    
 var options = $(this).find('.variant').children(":selected").get().map(function(el) {
  return el.value
 }).join(" / ");
 $('select[name="id"] option:contains(' + options + ')').prop('selected', true);
});

biberman · Accepted Answer

First: You should add to each select a placeholder like an empty option. Otherwise you couldn't trigger the change event if you select a preselected value (here S and Grey).

To update the other select.variant you have to compare its values (combined with the chosen value) with the values of the select[name="id"].

You could achieve this with multiple solutions, for example data-attributes, the value strings or classes. I used classes for the following solution.

So you can simply check if there is an option that has the questionable class.

if (!$('option').is('.' + val + '.' + color_val)) {...}

At the beginning of the change handler you have to "reset" the options of the other select.variant (remove all disabled attributes).

Working example:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.variant').change(function() {
    const val = this.value.toLowerCase();
    const variant_type = this.className.replace('variant', '').trim();
    
    $('.variant:not(.' + variant_type + ') option').attr('disabled', false);
    $('.variant:not(.' + variant_type + ') option').each(function() {
      const other_val = this.value.toLowerCase();

      if (!$('option').is('.' + other_val + '.' + val)) {
        this.disabled = true;
      }
    });

  });
});

If you want to use data-attributes you have to modify the function a slightly bit. The select.variant get instead of an additional class a data-type attribute. For example:

For a solution with data-attributes only the select[name="id"] gets instead of two classes two data-attributes, one for each possible data-type-value - in this example: data-size and data-color. For example:

To get the data-values you can use the dataset keyword. To select an element you can use attribute-selectors. For example:

const variant_type = this.dataset.type;

$('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"])')

With the data-type from the select.variant you could define which data-attribute of select[name="id"] you want to select. For example:

$('[data-' + other_type + '="' + other_val + '"]')

Working example:

$(document).ready(function() {
  
  $('.variant').change(function() {
    const val = this.value;
    const variant_type = this.dataset.type;
    const other_type = $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"])')[0].dataset.type;

    $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"]) option').attr('disabled', false);
    $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"]) option').each(function() {
      const other_val = this.value;

      if (!$('option').is('[data-' + variant_type + '="' + val + 
        '"][data-' + other_type + '="' + other_val + '"]')) {
        this.disabled = true;
      }
    });

  });
});

If you want to auto update the third select when both select.variant are chosen you could define a data object. For example:

let selected = {};

With each call of the change handler you would update the object with the data-type and the value (add a new entry to the object or overwrite an existing one):

selected[variant_type] = val;

After that you would update the third select (add the selected attribute to the fitting option), but only if both select.variant were chosen, which means that both got an entry in the data object:

if (selected[variant_type] && selected[other_type]) {...}

Working example:

$(document).ready(function() {
  let selected = {};
  
  $('.variant').change(function() {
    const val = this.value;
    const variant_type = this.dataset.type;
    const other_type = $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"])')[0].dataset.type;

    selected[variant_type] = val;

    $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"]) option').attr('disabled', false);
    $('.variant:not([data-type="' + variant_type + '"]) option').each(function() {
      const other_val = this.value;

      if (!$('option').is('[data-' + variant_type + '="' + val + 
        '"][data-' + other_type + '="' + other_val + '"]')) {
        this.disabled = true;
      }
    });

    if (selected[variant_type] && selected[other_type]) {
      $('option[data-' + variant_type + '="' + selected[variant_type] + 
        '"][data-' + other_type + '="' + selected[other_type] + '"]'
        )[0].selected = true;
    }

  });
});

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