Multiple <select> elements with one <input> element?

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a form on a web page where the user can select choices from multiple drop-down lists (<select> HTML elements) and then submit them all at once with a single submit button.  Is this possible?

I don't want to use a single <select> element with the "multiple" attribute because the list of options may be quite long, and I find it quite clunky for the user to have to hold ctrl/command/shift down while clicking on multiple options in such a long list (it's easy to accidentally release one of the keys and have to start over, etc.).

I've also used this for something similar in the past, but I want to limit the number of selected options to only four at once (which is another reason I also don't want to use <select> with "multiple").

So does anyone know how I could make something like the following work, both in terms of HTML and views.py (and without JS)?

<form>
  <select>
    <option>one</option>
    <option>two</option>
    <option>buckle</option>
    <option>shoe</option>
  </select>
  <select>
    <option>three</option>
    <option>four</option>
    <option>shut</option>
    <option>door</option>
  </select>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>

I'm guessing that in views.py it would be something like request.GET.getlist('q'), but as far as I know you're supposed to give each <select> element a different name, right?

thanks,
Guillaume

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