mobius1-selectr

What is mobius1-selectr?

The mobius1-selectr npm package is a lightweight, dependency-free JavaScript library for creating customizable and feature-rich select boxes. It provides a variety of functionalities to enhance the user experience with dropdowns, including multi-select, search, and custom styling.

What are mobius1-selectr's main functionalities?

Basic Initialization

This code initializes a basic Selectr instance on a select element with the ID 'mySelect'.

const selectr = new Selectr('#mySelect');

Multi-Select

This code initializes a Selectr instance that allows multiple selections.

const selectr = new Selectr('#mySelect', { multiple: true });

Searchable Dropdown

This code initializes a Selectr instance with a search input to filter options.

const selectr = new Selectr('#mySelect', { searchable: true });

Custom Styling

This code initializes a Selectr instance with a custom CSS class for styling.

const selectr = new Selectr('#mySelect', { customClass: 'my-custom-class' });

Option Groups

This code initializes a Selectr instance with grouped options.

const selectr = new Selectr('#mySelect', { data: [{ text: 'Group 1', children: [{ value: '1', text: 'Option 1' }, { value: '2', text: 'Option 2' }] }, { text: 'Group 2', children: [{ value: '3', text: 'Option 3' }, { value: '4', text: 'Option 4' }] }] });

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README

Selectr

A lightweight dependency-free select box replacement written in vanilla javascript. Similar to Select2 and Chosen without the dependencies.

Features:

• Supports single and multiple select boxes
• Supports optgroups
• Searchable options
• Tagging support
• Custom events
• Custom styling
• Much more...

Check the demos out here and the playground here.

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Install with bower

bower install mobius1-selectr --save

Install with npm

npm install mobius1-selectr --save

Manual Installation

Include the CSS file ...

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/selectr/2.1.0/selectr.min.css">

... and the JS file...

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/selectr/2.1.0/selectr.min.js"></script>

CDN courtesy of jsDelivr

Initialisation

HTML

Start with a standard select box you want to convert:

<select id="mySelect">
	<option vlaue="value-1">Value 1</option>
	<option vlaue="value-2">Value 2</option>
	<option vlaue="value-3">Value 3</option>
	...
</select>

Javascript

You can then instantiate Selectr by passing a reference to your select box as the first parameter:

You can either pass a DOM node or a CSS3 selector string:

new Selectr(document.getElementById('#mySelect'));

// or 

new Selectr('#mySelect');

Selectr accepts a second parameter as an object with the options you want to set:

new Selectr('#mySelect', {
    searchable: false,
    width: 300
});

Supports most modern browsers including IE9 and above.

Demos & Full Documentation

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Change Log

v2.1.1

• new option allowDeselect (see docs)
• tabIndex enabled on th main container
• tabIndex disabled on search input when closed

v2.1.0

• New tagging feature (see docs)

New functions:

• addOption() (see docs)
• serialize() (see docs)
• destroy() (see docs)
• render() (see docs)

New options:

• taggable (see docs)
• tagSeperators (see docs)

Updated options:

• sortSelected (see docs)

v2.0.0

• Complete rewrite
• New options added
• New methods added
• New events added

Updated functions:

• getValue() (see docs)
• setValue() (see docs)

Added options:

• clearable (see docs)
• sortSelected (see docs)

Updated options:

• selectedValue is now used for both single and multi selects (see docs)

Removed options:

• ajax
• minChars
• emptyOption
• selectedValues
• selectedIndex, selectedIndexes

Removed events:

• selectr.change (see docs)

License

Copyright 2016 Karl Saunders

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.