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Getting selected options with querySelectorAll

I wonder if it’s possible in Javascript to get the currently selected options in a <select multiple> field using the Selctors API rather than a “stupid” iteration over all options.

select.querySelectorAll('option[selected="selected"]') only returns the options that were marked as preselected in the original HTML, which is not what I’m looking for. Any ideas?

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Answer

document.querySelectorAll('option:checked')

Works even on IE9 😉

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