How to get number of selected options using jquery?

Question

I have a multiple selection list which have more than 5 options. But i want to restrict the selection of the options to 2 or 3 options. How to do it using jquery? How to get

Answer 1

You can get the number of selected items in the multiselect with the following:

$('#selectList :selected').length

Where #selectList is the id of your .