---
id: "M:cAlgo.API.MultiSelect.SelectItems(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable{System.String})"
kind: "method"
type: "T:cAlgo.API.MultiSelect"
url: "https://help.ctrader.com/ctrader-algo/references/Controls/MultiSelect/SelectItems/"
---

> Documentation index for agents: https://help.ctrader.com/ctrader-algo/llms.txt · machine index: https://help.ctrader.com/ctrader-algo/api.json

# MultiSelect.SelectItems

Member of [MultiSelect](https://help.ctrader.com/ctrader-algo/references/Controls/MultiSelect/index.md).

## SelectItems(IEnumerable<string> items)

Selects items on the MultiSelect

Environments: Desktop supported · CLI not supported · Cloud not supported.

- CLI: Accepted without error but never displayed, so control events such as Click are never raised.
- Cloud: Accepted without error but never displayed, so control events such as Click are never raised.

C#:

```csharp
public void SelectItems(IEnumerable<string> items)
```

Python:

```python
multiSelect.SelectItems(items: Iterable[str]) -> None
```

### Parameters

- `items` (`IEnumerable<string>`, Python `Iterable[str]`): The items that will be selected on MultiSelect

Available since cAlgo.API 5.6.

### Examples

C#:

```csharp
var multiSelect = new MultiSelect();
foreach (var symbolName in new[] { "EURUSD", "GBPUSD", "USDJPY" })
    multiSelect.AddItem(symbolName);
multiSelect.SelectItems(new[] { "EURUSD", "USDJPY" });
Chart.AddControl(multiSelect);
```

Python:

```python
multiSelect = MultiSelect()
for symbolName in ["EURUSD", "GBPUSD", "USDJPY"]:
    multiSelect.AddItem(symbolName)
multiSelect.SelectItems(["EURUSD", "USDJPY"])
api.Chart.AddControl(multiSelect)
```