REACT MULTISELECT DROPDOWN

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Description

A React component which provides multi select functionality with various features like selection limit, CSS customization, checkbox, search option, disable preselected values, flat array, keyboard navigation for accessibility and grouping features. Also it has feature to behave like normal dropdown(means single select dropdown).

🎉🎉 New features in >=2.0.0

✨ SSR Support
🍃 Light weight
🚀 Typescript

🏳️‍🌈 Getting Started

1. Installation 🔧

npm install multiselect-react-dropdown  

yarn add multiselect-react-dropdown

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2. Demo 👁️

React-multi-select-dropdown

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3. Basic Usage 📑

1import Multiselect from 'multiselect-react-dropdown';
2
3this.state = {
4    options: [{name: 'Option 1️⃣', id: 1},{name: 'Option 2️⃣', id: 2}]
5};
6
7<Multiselect
8options={this.state.options} // Options to display in the dropdown
9selectedValues={this.state.selectedValue} // Preselected value to persist in dropdown
10onSelect={this.onSelect} // Function will trigger on select event
11onRemove={this.onRemove} // Function will trigger on remove event
12displayValue="name" // Property name to display in the dropdown options
13/>
14
15onSelect(selectedList, selectedItem) {
16    ...
17}
18
19onRemove(selectedList, removedItem) {
20    ...
21}

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4. Props 💬

Prop	Type	Default	Description
options	array	[]	Dropdown options
onSelect	function	func	Callback function will invoked on select event. Params are selectedList & selectedItem
onRemove	function	func	Callback function will invoked on remove event. Params are selectedList & removedItem
singleSelect	boolean	false	Make it true to behave like a normal dropdown(single select dropdown)
selectedValues	array	[]	Preselected value to persist in dropdown
showCheckbox	bool	false	To display checkbox option in the dropdown
selectionLimit	number	-1	You can limit the number of items that can be selected in a dropdown
placeholder	string	Select	Placeholder text
disablePreSelectedValues	bool	false	Prevent to deselect the preselected values
isObject	bool	true	Make it false to display flat array of string or number Ex. ['Test1',1]
displayValue	string	value	Property name in the object to display in the dropdown. Refer Basic Usage section
emptyRecordMsg	string	No options available	Message to display when no records found
groupBy	string	''	Group the popup list items with the corresponding category by the property name in the object
closeIcon	string	circle	Option to select close icon instead of default. Refer Close Icon section
style	object	{}	CSS Customization for multiselect. Refer below object for css customization.
caseSensitiveSearch	bool	false	Enables case sensitivity on the search field.
closeOnSelect	bool	true	Dropdown get closed on select/remove item from options.
id	string	''	Id for the multiselect container and input field(In input field it will append '{id}_input').
className	string	''	Class for the multiselect container wrapper.
avoidHighlightFirstOption	bool	false	Based on flag first option will get highlight whenever optionlist open.
hidePlaceholder	bool	false	For true, placeholder will be hidden if there is any selected values in multiselect
disable	bool	false	For true, dropdown will be disabled
onSearch	function	func	Callback function invoked on search in multiselect, helpful to make api call to load data from api based on search.
loading	bool	false	If options is fetching from api, in the meantime, we can show loading... message in the list.
loadingMessage	any	''	Custom loading message, it can be string or component.
showArrow	bool	false	For multiselect dropdown by default arrow wont show at the end, If required based on flag we can display
customArrow	any	undefined	For multiselect dropdown custom arrow option
keepSearchTerm	bool	false	Whether or not to keep the search value after selecting or removing an item
customCloseIcon	ReactNode or string	undefined	Custom close icon and can be string or react component(Check demo for reference)
selectedValueDecorator	(string) => ReactNode | string	v => v	A function that can be used to modify the representation selected value
optionValueDecorator	(string) => string	v => v	A function that can be used to modify the representation the available options

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5. Ref as a prop 📌

By using React.createRef() or useRef(), able to access below methods to get or reset selected values

Method Name	Description
resetSelectedValues	Programatically reset selected values and returns promise
getSelectedItems	Get all selected items
getSelectedItemsCount	Get selected items count

1constructor() {
2  this.multiselectRef = React.createRef();
3}
4
5resetValues() {
6  // By calling the belowe method will reset the selected values programatically
7  this.multiselectRef.current.resetSelectedValues();
8}
9
10<Multiselect
11options={this.state.options} // Options to display in the dropdown
12ref={this.multiselectRef}
13/>
14

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6. CSS Customization 🌈

1{
2  multiselectContainer: { // To change css for multiselect (Width,height,etc..)
3	....
4  },
5  searchBox: { // To change search box element look
6	border: none;
7	font-size: 10px;
8	min-height: 50px;
9  },
10  inputField: { // To change input field position or margin
11      margin: 5px;
12  },
13  chips: { // To change css chips(Selected options)
14	background: red;
15  },
16  optionContainer: { // To change css for option container 
17	border: 2px solid;
18  }
19  option: { // To change css for dropdown options
20	color: blue;
21  },
22  groupHeading: { // To chanage group heading style
23	....
24  }
25}

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7. Close Icons ❌

Name	Image
circle
circle2
cancel
close

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8. Licence 📜

MIT