chakra-react-select
This component is a wrapper for the popular react component react-select made using the UI library Chakra UI.
Check out the demos here:
NOTE: Before leaving an issue on this project, remember that this is just a wrapper for react-select
, not a standalone package. A large percent of the questions people have end up being about how react-select
itself works, so please read through their documentation to familiarize yourself with it! https://react-select.com/home
Contents
Usage
In order to use this package, you'll need to have @chakra-ui/react
set up like in the guide in their docs. Then install this package from NPM:
npm i chakra-react-select
Then you can import the base select package, the async select, the creatable select or the async creatable select:
import {
AsyncCreatableSelect,
AsyncSelect,
CreatableSelect,
Select,
} from "chakra-react-select";
In order to use this component, you can implement it and use it like you would normally use react-select. It should accept almost all of the props that the original takes, with a few additions and exceptions.
size
— Options: sm
, md
, lg
— Default: md
You can pass the size
prop with either sm
, md
, or lg
(default is md
). These will reflect the sizes available on the Chakra <Input />
component (with the exception of xs
because it's too small to work).
return (
<>
<Select size="sm" />
<Select size="md" /> {/* Default */}
<Select size="lg" />
</>
);
colorScheme
You can pass the colorScheme
prop to the select component to change all of the selected options tags' colors. You can view the whole list of available color schemes in the Chakra docs, or if you have a custom color palette, any of the custom color names in that will be available instead.
Alternatively you can add the colorScheme
key to any of your options objects and it will only style that option when selected.
return (
<Select
{/* The global color scheme */}
colorScheme="purple"
options={[
{
label: "I am red",
value: "i-am-red",
colorScheme: "red", // The option color scheme overrides the global
},
{
label: "I fallback to purple",
value: "i-am-purple",
},
]}
/>
);
tagVariant
— Options: subtle
, solid
, outline
— Default: subtle
You can pass the tagVariant
prop with either subtle
, solid
, or outline
(default is subtle
). These will reflect the variant
prop available on the Chakra <Tag />
component.
Alternatively you can add the variant
key to any of your options objects and it will only style that option when selected. This will override the tagVariant
prop on the select if both are set
return (
<Select
{/* The global variant */}
tagVariant="solid"
options={[
{
label: "I have the outline style",
value: "i-am-outlined",
variant: "outline", // The option variant overrides the global
},
{
label: "I fallback to the global `solid`",
value: "i-am-solid",
},
]}
/>
);
isInvalid
— Default: false
You can pass isInvalid
to the select component to style it like the Chakra <Input />
is styled when it receives the same prop.
You can pass also pass isInvalid
or isDisabled
to a wrapping <FormControl />
and it will output their corresponding <Input />
on the select.
return (
<>
{/* This will show up with a red border */}
<Select isInvalid />
{/* This will show up with a red border, and grayed out */}
<FormControl isInvalid isDisabled>
<FormLabel>Invalid & Disabled Select</FormLabel>
<Select />
<FormErrorMessage>
This error message shows because of an invalid FormControl
</FormErrorMessage>
</FormControl>
</>
);
focusBorderColor
— Default: blue.500
| errorBorderColor
— Default: red.500
The props focusBorderColor
and errorBorderColor
can be passed with Chakra color strings which will emulate the respective props being passed to Chakra's <Input />
component.
return (
<>
<Select focusBorderColor="green.500" />
<Select errorBorderColor="orange.500" />
</>
);
One additional feature which isn’t specific to Chakra or react-select is sticky group headers. It adds a border to the bottom of the header and keeps it in view while its corresponding group of options is visible. This can be very nice for when you have long lists of grouped options so you can always tell which group of options you're looking at. To add it, pass the hasStickyGroupHeaders
prop to the select component.
return <Select hasStickyGroupHeaders />;
NOTE: It has recently been discovered that when using this prop, navigating up through the available options with the arrow key will keep the focused option underneath the header, as it will not scroll enough to account for it being there. So if this is an issue for you, avoid this prop. A fix for this is being investigated.
selectedOptionStyle
— Options: color
, check
— Default: color
In v1.3.0
you can now pass the prop selectedOptionStyle
with either "color"
or "check"
(defaults to "color"
). The default option "color"
will style a selected option similar to how react-select does it, by highlighting the selected option in the color blue. Alternatively if you pass "check"
for the value, the selected option will be styled like the Chakra UI Menu component and include a check icon next to the selected option(s). If isMulti
and selectedOptionStyle="check"
are passed, space will only be added for the check marks if hideSelectedOptions={false}
is also passed.
return (
<>
<Select selectedOptionStyle="color" /> {/* Default */}
<Select selectedOptionStyle="check" /> {/* Chakra UI Menu Style */}
</>
);
selectedOptionColor
— Default: blue
If you choose to stick with the default selectedOptionStyle="color"
, you have one additional styling option. If you do not like the default of blue for the highlight color, you can pass the selectedOptionColor
prop to change it. This prop will accept any named color from your color theme, and it will use the 500
value in light mode or the 300
value in dark mode.
return (
<>
<Select selectedOptionColor="blue" /> {/* Default */}
<Select selectedOptionColor="purple" />
</>
);
isFixed
In your options objects, you can add the key isFixed: true
to emulate the example in the react-select docs. This will prevent the options which have this flag from having the remove button on its corresponding tag, and it changes the default tagVariant
for that tag to be solid. This only applies when using isMulti
.
return (
<Select
isMulti
options={[
{
label: "I can't be removed",
value: "fixed",
isFixed: true,
},
{
label: "I can be removed",
value: "not-fixed",
},
]}
/>
);
If you have any other requests for Chakra-like features that could be added, or problems with the current features, please submit an issue!
Styling
There are a few ways to style the components that make up chakra-react-select
. It's important to note that this package does not use the theme
or styles
props that are implemented in react-select
. The theme
prop isn't used as most of the components' base styles are pulling from your Chakra theme, and customizing your base theme (such as colors or component styles) should in turn change the styles in this package.
This package does however offer an alternative to the styles
prop, chakraStyles
. It mostly emulates the behavior of the original styles
prop, however, because it’s not identical it is named differently to prevent confusion.
chakraStyles
In order to use the chakraStyles
prop, first check the documentation for the original styles
prop from the react-select docs. This package offers an identical API for the chakraStyles
prop, however the provided
and output style objects use Chakra's sx
prop instead of the default emotion styles the original package offers. This allows you to both use the shorthand styling props you'd normally use to style Chakra components, as well as tokens from your theme such as named colors.
The API for an individual style function looks like this:
function option(provided, state) {
return {
...provided,
color: state.isFocused ? "blue.500" : "red.400",
};
}
All of the style keys offered in the original package can be used here, except for input
as that does not allow me to use the chakraStyles
from the select props. The input
styles are also much more dynamic and should be left alone for the most part.
Most of the components rendered by this package use the basic Chakra <Box />
component with a few exceptions. Here are the style keys offered and the corresponding Chakra component that is rendered:
clearIndicator
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's CloseButton
)container
- Box
control
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's Input
)dropdownIndicator
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chrakra's InputRightAddon
)downChevron
- Icon
crossIcon
- Icon
group
- Box
groupHeading
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's Menu
group title)indicatorsContainer
- Box
indicatorSeparator
- Divider
input
- chakra.input
(wrapped in a Box
)inputContainer
- Box
loadingIndicator
- Spinner
loadingMessage
- Box
menu
- Box
menuList
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's Menu
)multiValue
- chakra.span
(uses theme styles for Chakra's Tag
)multiValueLabel
- chakra.span
(uses theme styles for Chakra's TagLabel
)multiValueRemove
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's TagCloseButton
)noOptionsMessage
- Box
option
- Box
(uses theme styles for Chakra's MenuItem
)placeholder
- Box
singleValue
- Box
valueContainer
- Box
If you're using TypeScript, the chakraStyles
prop is defined by the exported ChakraStylesConfig
interface.
import { ChakraStylesConfig, Select } from "chakra-react-select";
const App: React.FC = () => {
const chakraStyles: ChakraStylesConfig = {
dropdownIndicator: (provided, state) => ({
...provided,
background: state.isFocused ? "blue.100" : provided.background,
p: 0,
w: "40px",
}),
};
return <Select chakraStyles={chakraStyles} />;
};
Caveats
One change between the keys in the chakraStyles
prop and the original styles
prop, is that in the original the input
styles apply to a container surrounding the html <input />
element, and there is no key for styling the input itself. With the chakraStyles
object, the input
key now styles the actual <chakra.input />
element and there is a new key, inputContainer
, that styles the surrounding Box
. Both functions use the state
argument for the original input
key.
There are also two extra style keys for the icons contained within the indicators that are not offered in the original package. These are downChevron
which is contained inside the DropdownIndicator
, and the crossIcon
which is contained inside the ClearIndicator
. Both styles receive the same state
values as their containing indicators. These style keys were added as a convenience, however you could also apply the same styles using the parent chakraStyles
by doing something like this:
const chakraStyles = {
dropdownIndicator: (prev, { selectProps }) => ({
...prev,
"> svg": {
transform: `rotate(${selectProps.menuIsOpen ? -180 : 0}deg)`,
},
}),
};
Additionally, there is one key that is available in the styles
prop that does not exist in the chakraStyles
object; menuPortal
. This key applies to the MenuPortal
element which is only used when the menuPortalTarget
prop is passed in. This component is replaceable, however it is very tightly integrated with the menu placement logic (and a context provider) so it appears to be impossible to fully replace it with a chakra component. And in turn, it can't pull a key from the chakraStyles
prop. Therefor, if you are passing the menuPortalTarget
prop and would like to change the styles of the MenuPortal
component, you have two options:
- Pass the original
styles
prop with the menuPortal
key. This is the only key in the styles
object that will be applied to your components.
return (
<Select
menuPortalTarget={document.body}
styles={{
menuPortal: (provided) => ({ ...provided, zIndex: 100 })
}}
chakraStyles={{
// All other component styles
}}
/>
)
- Pass the
classNamePrefix
prop as described below and style the MenuPortal
with CSS using the className prefix__menu-portal
.
import "styles.css"
return (
<Select
menuPortalTarget={document.body}
classNamePrefix="chakra-react-select"
/>
)
.chakra-react-select__menu-portal {
z-index: 100;
}
If anyone has any suggestions for how to fully replace the MenuPortal
component, please leave a comment on this issue or submit a pull request.
Examples
Theme Styles
As mentioned above, a few of the custom components this package implements either use styles from the global Chakra component theme or are themselves those components. As this package pulls directly from your Chakra theme, any changes you make to those components' themes will propagate to the components in this package. Here is a list of all components that will be affected by changes to your global styles:
In addition to specific component styles, any changes you make to your global color scheme will also be reflected in these custom components.
NOTE: Only make changes to your global component themes if you want them to appear in all instances of that component. Otherwise, just change the individual components' styles using the chakraStyles
prop.
className
This package implements the same classNames on the sub components as the original package so you can use these to style sub-components with CSS. Here is an excerpt from the react-select docs describing how it works:
If you provide the className
prop to react-select, the SelectContainer will be given a className based on the provided value.
If you provide the classNamePrefix
prop to react-select, all inner elements will be given a className
with the provided prefix.
For example, given className='react-select-container'
and classNamePrefix="react-select"
,
the DOM structure is similar to this:
<div class="react-select-container">
<div class="react-select__control">
<div class="react-select__value-container">...</div>
<div class="react-select__indicators">...</div>
</div>
<div class="react-select__menu">
<div class="react-select__menu-list">
<div class="react-select__option">...</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
While we encourage you to use the new Styles API, you still have the option of styling via CSS classes. This ensures compatibility with styled components, CSS modules and other libraries.
Here is an example of using classNames to style the components: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-react-select-classnameprefix-demo-4r2pe?file=/example.js
TypeScript Support
This package has always supported typescript, however until 3.0.0
none of the type inference was working on the props passed into this component. Now that they are, you may need to pass in some generics in order for your component to work properly.
This package exports all of the named module members of the original react-select
in case you need their built in types in any of your variable declarations. The root select Props
type that is exported by react-select
has been extended using module augmentation so if you import that type, it will include all of the extra props offered. This package also exports a few custom types that are specific to the custom props offered by this package:
ChakraStylesConfig
— The type for the prop chakraStyles
that can be passed to customize the component styles. This is almost identical to the built in StylesConfig
type, however it uses Chakra's SystemStyleObject
type instead of react-select's emotion styles.OptionBase
— A type for your individual select options that includes the custom props for styling each of your selected options. This type is made to give you a base to extend off of and pass in as a generic to the root Select
component.- Each of the four Select components has a type exported with it:
SelectComponent
AsyncSelectComponent
CreatableSelectComponent
AsyncCreatableSelectComponent
Here is an example of how to pass in the proper generics to chakra-react-select
:
import { GroupBase, OptionBase, Select } from "chakra-react-select";
interface ColorOption extends OptionBase {
label: string;
value: string;
}
const colorOptions = [
{
label: "Red",
value: "red",
colorScheme: "red",
},
{
label: "Blue",
value: "blue",
}
]
function CustomMultiSelect() {
return {
<Select<ColorOption, true, GroupBase<ColorOption>>
isMulti
name="colors"
options={colorOptions}
placeholder="Select some colors..."
/>
}
}
Customizing Components
Like the original react-select
, this package exports all of the custom components that make up the overall select. However, instead of being exported as components
they are exported as chakraComponents
in order to leave the original components
export from react-select alone (you can export that as well if you'd like). When implementing this component, you have the option to wrap these components and alter their state and the children they return in the same way the original does.
It's important to note however, that there are 3 components offered in the original react-select
that are missing from chakraComponents
. These are the CrossIcon
, DownChevron
, and MenuPortal
. The MenuPortal
could not be replaced at all as mentioned earlier, so if you'd like to customize it, use the original from the components
import. The icons posed issues with prop compatibility when passing them into the core Select
so the easiest way to replace them would be to use a custom DropdownIndicator
or ClearIndicator
and pass custom icons in as children:
CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/chakra-react-select-custom-icons-xf7scd?file=/example.js
const components = {
ClearIndicator: (props) => (
<chakraComponents.ClearIndicator {...props}>
<Icon as={IoMdCloseCircleOutline} w={4} h={4} />
</chakraComponents.ClearIndicator>
),
DropdownIndicator: (props) => (
<chakraComponents.DropdownIndicator {...props}>
<Icon as={AiFillCaretDown} />
</chakraComponents.DropdownIndicator>
),
};
Here's a complete example of how you might use custom components to create a select with a custom Option
:
import { Icon } from "@chakra-ui/react";
import { Select, chakraComponents } from "chakra-react-select";
import {
GiCherry,
GiChocolateBar,
GiCoffeeBeans,
GiStrawberry,
} from "react-icons/gi";
const flavorOptions = [
{
value: "coffee",
label: "Coffee",
icon: <Icon as={GiCoffeeBeans} color="orange.700" mr={2} h={5} w={5} />,
},
{
value: "chocolate",
label: "Chocolate",
icon: <Icon as={GiChocolateBar} color="yellow.800" mr={2} h={5} w={5} />,
},
{
value: "strawberry",
label: "Strawberry",
icon: <Icon as={GiStrawberry} color="red.500" mr={2} h={5} w={5} />,
},
{
value: "cherry",
label: "Cherry",
icon: <Icon as={GiCherry} color="red.600" mr={2} h={5} w={5} />,
},
];
const customComponents = {
Option: ({ children, ...props }) => (
<chakraComponents.Option {...props}>
{props.data.icon} {children}
</chakraComponents.Option>
),
};
const Example = () => (
<Select
name="flavors"
options={flavorOptions}
placeholder="Select some flavors..."
components={customComponents}
/>
);
CodeSandbox Examples:
Custom LoadingIndicator
(Chakra Spinner
)
For most sub components, the styling can be easily accomplished using the chakraStyles
prop. However, in the case of the LoadingIndicator
there are a few props which do not directly correlate very well with styling props. To solve that problem, the chakraComponents.LoadingIndicator
component can be passed a few extra props which are normally available on the Chakra UI Spinner
. Here is an example demonstrating which extra props are offered:
import { AsyncSelect, chakraComponents } from "chakra-react-select";
const asyncComponents = {
LoadingIndicator: (props) => (
<chakraComponents.LoadingIndicator
// The color of the main line which makes up the spinner
// This could be accomplished using `chakraStyles` but it is also available as a custom prop
color="currentColor" // <-- This default's to your theme's text color (Light mode: gray.700 | Dark mode: whiteAlpha.900)
// The color of the remaining space that makes up the spinner
emptyColor="transparent"
// The `size` prop on the Chakra spinner
// Defaults to one size smaller than the Select's size
spinnerSize="md"
// A CSS <time> variable (s or ms) which determines the time it takes for the spinner to make one full rotation
speed="0.45s"
// A CSS size string representing the thickness of the spinner's line
thickness="2px"
// Don't forget to forward the props!
{...props}
/>
),
};
const App = () => (
<AsyncSelect
isMulti
name="colors"
placeholder="Select some colors..."
components={asyncComponents}
loadOptions={(inputValue, callback) => {
setTimeout(() => {
const values = colourOptions.filter((i) =>
i.label.toLowerCase().includes(inputValue.toLowerCase())
);
callback(values);
}, 3000);
}}
/>
);
CodeSandbox examples:
useChakraSelectProps
Being a wrapper for react-select
, all of the customizations done to react-select are passed in as props. There is a hook, useChakraSelectProps
that handles merging any extra customizations from the end user with the customizations done by this package. In some cases you may simply want to use this hook to get the custom props and pass them into a react-select
instance yourself.
To do so, simply import the hook from this package, and call it by passing in any extra custom props you'd like into it and spread it onto a base react-select
component:
import { useChakraSelectProps } from "chakra-react-select";
import Select from "react-select";
const CustomSelect = (customSelectProps) => {
const selectProps = useChakraSelectProps(customSelectProps);
return <Select {...selectProps} />;
};
One example of how you might use this is to customize the component react-google-places-autocomplete
, which is an autocomplete dropdown for Google Places that uses the AsyncSelect
from react-select
as it's core. Therefore, it accepts all of the same select props as the core react-select does which means you can use the useChakraSelectProps
hook to style it:
import { useState } from "react";
import { useChakraSelectProps } from "chakra-react-select";
import ReactGooglePlacesAutocomplete from "react-google-places-autocomplete";
const GooglePlacesAutocomplete = () => {
const [place, setPlace] = useState(null);
const selectProps = useChakraSelectProps({
value: place,
onChange: setPlace,
});
return (
<ReactGooglePlacesAutocomplete
apiKey="YOUR API KEY HERE"
selectProps={selectProps}
/>
);
};
export default GooglePlacesAutocomplete;
NOTE: An API key would be needed to create a CodeSandbox example for this so you will have to implement it in your own project if you'd like to test it out.
Usage with React Form Libraries
This section is a work in progress, check back soon for more examples
This package can be used with form controllers such as Formik or React Hook Form in the same way you would with the original React Select. Here are a few examples to help you get started. If you'd like to see examples using other form providers, you can submit it as an issue.
See this issue for some discussion about using this package with react-hook-form
: https://github.com/csandman/chakra-react-select/issues/7
By default, react-hook-form
uses uncontrolled components to reduced input renders however this only works for native HTML inputs. Because chakra-react-select is not a native HTML input, you'll need to use react-hook-form's Controller
component or useController
hook in order to keep the value(s) tracked in react-hook-form
's state. Here are some examples using each:
Controller
multi select with built-in validation
useController
multi select with built-in validation
useController
single select
- Multi select with
yup
validation
- Vanilla JS: coming soon
- TypeScript: coming soon
See this issue for some discussion about using this package with formik
: https://github.com/csandman/chakra-react-select/issues/23
- Single select with built in validation
- Vanilla JS: coming soon
- TypeScript: coming soon
- Multi select with built in validation
- Vanilla JS: coming soon
- TypeScript: coming soon
- Multi select with
yup
validation
- Vanilla JS: coming soon
- TypeScript: coming soon
CodeSandbox Templates
When submitting a bug report, please include a minimum reproduction of your issue using one of these templates: