Get selected item id from SharePoint 2013 list view using JSOM (JavaScript object model)

This SharePoint 2013 tutorial explains, how to get selected item id’s from a SharePoint 2013 list view by using JavaScript object model (jsom). Here I have a SharePoint 2013 list which has few items. Now in the All Items view I want to know on a button click what are items selected, basically I want to get the ids of the items.

Get selected item id from SharePoint 2013 list view using JSOM (JavaScript object model)

Here I have taken a button and on the button click, we are retrieving selected list item id from SharePoint list view using javascript.

Open your SharePoint 2013 site in the browser then open the list (All Items view). Then edit the page and click on Add a web part to add a web part. Then from the Media and Content select a Script Editor web part to the page. Then put the below code inside the script editor web part.

<input type='button' value='Get Item IDs' onclick="clickMethod();"/>

<br />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function clickMethod() {
var ctx = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var items = SP.ListOperation.Selection.getSelectedItems(ctx);
var mySeletedItems = '';
var i;
for (i in items)
{
mySeletedItems += '|' + items[i].id;
}
alert (mySeletedItems);
}
</script>

Now Save the page and select few items from the list and then click on the button, it will display you id’s of the selected items in a dialog box as shown in the fig below:

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Hope this SharePoint tutorial explains, how to get selected item id from SharePoint 2013 list view using JSOM (JavaScript object model).

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