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Svelte multi-select component

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Svelte MultiSelect

Keyboard-friendly, accessible and highly customizable multi-select component. View the docs

Key features

Bindable: bind:selected gives you an array of the currently selected options. Thanks to Svelte's 2-way binding, it can also control the component state externally through assignment selected = ['foo', 42].
Keyboard friendly for mouse-less form completion
No run-time deps: needs only Svelte as dev dependency
Dropdowns: scrollable lists for large numbers of options
Searchable: start typing to filter options
Tagging: selected options are listed as tags within the input
Single / multiple select: pass maxSelect={1, 2, 3, ...} prop to restrict the number of selectable options
Configurable: see props

Recent breaking changes

v5.0.0 Supports both simple and object options. Previously strings and numbers were converted to { value, label } objects internally and returned by bind:selected. Now, if you pass in string[], that's exactly what you'll get from bind:selected. See PR 76.
v6.0.0 The prop showOptions which controls whether the list of dropdown options is currently open or closed was renamed to open. See PR 103.
v6.0.1 The prop disabledTitle which sets the title of the <MultiSelect> <input> node if in disabled mode was renamed to disabledInputTitle. See PR 105.
v6.0.1 The default margin of 1em 0 on the wrapper div.multiselect was removed. Instead, there is now a new CSS variable --sms-margin. Set it to --sms-margin: 1em 0; to restore the old appearance. See PR 105.
6.1.0 The dispatch events focus and blur were renamed to open and close, respectively. These actions refer to the dropdown list, i.e. <MultiSelect on:open={(event) => console.log(event)}> will trigger when the dropdown list opens. The focus and blur events are now regular DOM (not Svelte dispatch) events emitted by the <input> node. See PR 120.
v7.0.0 selected (as well selectedLabels and selectedValues) used to be arrays always. Now, if maxSelect=1, they will no longer be a length-1 array but simply a single a option (label/value respectively) or null if no option is selected. See PR 123.

Installation

npm install -D svelte-multiselect
pnpm install -D svelte-multiselect
yarn add -D svelte-multiselect

Usage

<script>
  import MultiSelect from 'svelte-multiselect'

  const ui_libs = [`Svelte`, `React`, `Vue`, `Angular`, `...`]

  let selected = []
</script>

Favorite Frontend Frameworks?

<code>selected = {JSON.stringify(selected)}</code>

<MultiSelect bind:selected options={ui_libs} />

Props

Full list of props/bindable variables for this component. In the type hints below, Option is:

import type { Option } from 'svelte-multiselect'

```
activeIndex: number | null = null
```
Zero-based index of currently active option in the array of currently matching options, i.e. if the user typed a search string into the input and only a subset of options match, this index refers to the array position of the matching subset of options
```
activeOption: Option | null = null
```
Currently active option, i.e. the one the user currently hovers or navigated to with arrow keys.
```
addOptionMsg: string = `Create this option...`
```
Message shown to users after entering text when no options match their query and allowUserOptions is truthy.
```
allowUserOptions: boolean | 'append' = false
```
Whether users can enter values that are not in the dropdown list. true means add user-defined options to the selected list only, 'append' means add to both options and selected. If allowUserOptions is true or 'append' then the type object | number | string of entered value is determined from the first option of the list to keep type homogeneity.
```
autocomplete: string = `off`
```
Applied to the <input>. Specifies if browser is permitted to auto-fill this form field. Should usually be one of 'on' or 'off' but see MDN docs for other admissible values.
```
autoScroll: boolean = true
```
false disables keeping the active dropdown items in view when going up/down the list of options with arrow keys.
```
breakpoint: number = 800
```
Screens wider than breakpoint in pixels will be considered 'desktop', everything narrower as 'mobile'.
```
defaultDisabledTitle: string = `This option is disabled`
```
Title text to display when user hovers over a disabled option. Each option can override this through its disabledTitle attribute.
```
disabled: boolean = false
```
Disable the component. It will still be rendered but users won't be able to interact with it.
```
disabledInputTitle: string = `This input is disabled`
```
Tooltip text to display on hover when the component is in disabled state.

filterFunc = (op: Option, searchText: string): boolean => {
  if (!searchText) return true
  return `${get_label(op)}`.toLowerCase().includes(searchText.toLowerCase())
}

Customize how dropdown options are filtered when user enters search string into <MultiSelect />. Defaults to:

```
focusInputOnSelect: boolean | 'desktop' = `desktop`
```
One of true, false or 'desktop'. Whether to set the cursor back to the input element after selecting an element. 'desktop' means only do so if current window width is larger than the current value of breakpoint prop (default 800).
```
id: string | null = null
```
Applied to the <input> element for associating HTML form <label>s with this component for accessibility. Also, clicking a <label> with same for attribute as id will focus this component.
```
input: HTMLInputElement | null = null
```
Handle to the <input> DOM node. Only available after component mounts (null before then).
```
inputmode: string | null = null
```
The inputmode attribute hints at the type of data the user may enter. Values like 'numeric' | 'tel' | 'email' allow browsers to display an appropriate virtual keyboard. See MDN for details.
```
invalid: boolean = false
```
If required=true and user tries to submit but selected = [] is empty, invalid is automatically set to true and CSS class invalid applied to the top-level div.multiselect. invalid class is removed again as soon as the user selects an option. invalid can also be controlled externally by binding to it <MultiSelect bind:invalid /> and setting it to true based on outside events or custom validation.
```
loading: boolean = false
```
Whether the component should display a spinner to indicate it's in loading state. Use <slot name='spinner'> to specify a custom spinner.
```
matchingOptions: Option[] = []
```
List of options currently displayed to the user. Same as options unless the user entered searchText in which case this array contains only those options for which filterFunc = (op: Option, searchText: string) => boolean returned true.
```
maxSelect: number | null = null
```
Positive integer to limit the number of options users can pick. null means no limit. maxSelect={1} will change the type of selected to be a single Option (or null) (not a length-1 array). Likewise, the type of selectedLabels changes from (string | number)[] to string | number | null and selectedValues from unknown[] to unknown | null. maxSelect={1} will also give div.multiselect a class of single. I.e. you can target the selector div.multiselect.single to give single selects a different appearance from multi selects.
```
maxSelectMsg: ((current: number, max: number) => string) | null = null
```
Inform users how many of the maximum allowed options they have already selected. Set maxSelectMsg={null} to not show a message. Defaults to null when maxSelect={1} or maxSelect={null}. Else if maxSelect > 1, defaults to:
```
maxSelectMsg = (current: number, max: number) => `${current}/${max}`
```
```
name: string | null = null
```
Applied to the <input> element. Sets the key of this field in a submitted form data object. Not useful at the moment since the value is stored in Svelte state, not on the <input> node.
```
noOptionsMsg: string = `No matching options`
```
What message to show if no options match the user-entered search string.
```
open: boolean = false
```
Whether the dropdown list is currently visible. Is two-way bindable, i.e. can be used for external control of when the options are visible.
```
options: Option[]
```
The only required prop (no default). Array of strings/numbers or Option objects to be listed in the dropdown. The only required key on objects is label which must also be unique. An object's value defaults to label if undefined. You can add arbitrary additional keys to your option objects. A few keys like preselected and title have special meaning though. See type ObjectOption in src/lib/index.ts for all special keys and their purpose.
```
outerDiv: HTMLDivElement | null = null
```
Handle to outer <div class="multiselect"> that wraps the whole component. Only available after component mounts (null before then).
```
parseLabelsAsHtml: boolean = false
```
Whether option labels should be passed to Svelte's @html directive or inserted into the DOM as plain text. true will raise an error if allowUserOptions is also truthy as it makes your site susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
```
pattern: string | null = null
```
The pattern attribute specifies a regular expression which the input's value must match. If a non-null value doesn't match the pattern regex, the read-only patternMismatch property will be true. See MDN for details.
```
placeholder: string | null = null
```
String shown in the text input when no option is selected.
```
removeAllTitle: string = `Remove all`
```
Title text to display when user hovers over remove-all button.
```
removeBtnTitle: string = `Remove`
```
Title text to display when user hovers over button to remove selected option (which defaults to a cross icon).
```
required: boolean = false
```
Whether forms can be submitted without selecting any options. Aborts submission, is scrolled into view and shows help "Please fill out" message when true and user tries to submit with no options selected.
```
searchText: string = ``
```
Text the user-entered to filter down on the list of options. Binds both ways, i.e. can also be used to set the input text.
```
selected: Option[] | Option | null =
 options
   ?.filter((op) => (op as ObjectOption)?.preselected)
   .slice(0, maxSelect ?? undefined) ?? []
```
Array of currently selected options. Supports 2-way binding bind:selected={[1, 2, 3]} to control component state externally or passed as prop to set pre-selected options that will already be populated when component mounts before any user interaction. If maxSelect={1}, selected will not be an array but a single Option or null if no options are selected.
```
selectedLabels: (string | number)[] | string | number | null = []
```
Labels of currently selected options. Exposed just for convenience, equivalent to selected.map(op => op.label) when options are objects. If options are simple strings, selected === selectedLabels. Supports binding but is read-only, i.e. since this value is reactive to selected, you cannot control selected by changing bind:selectedLabels. If maxSelect={1}, selectedLabels will not be an array but a single string | number or null if no options are selected.
```
selectedValues: unknown[] | unknown | null = []
```
Values of currently selected options. Exposed just for convenience, equivalent to selected.map(op => op.value) when options are objects. If options are simple strings, selected === selectedValues. Supports binding but is read-only, i.e. since this value is reactive to selected, you cannot control selected by changing bind:selectedValues. If maxSelect={1}, selectedLabels will not be an array but a single value or null if no options are selected.
```
sortSelected: boolean | ((op1: Option, op2: Option) => number) = false
```
Default behavior is to render selected items in the order they were chosen. sortSelected={true} uses default JS array sorting. A compare function enables custom logic for sorting selected options. See the /sort-selected example.

Slots

MultiSelect.svelte has 3 named slots:

slot="option": Customize rendering of dropdown options. Receives as props an option and the zero-indexed position (idx) it has in the dropdown.
slot="selected": Customize rendering of selected items. Receives as props an option and the zero-indexed position (idx) it has in the list of selected items.
slot="spinner": Custom spinner component to display when in loading state. Receives no props.
slot="disabled-icon": Custom icon to display inside the input when in disabled state. Receives no props. Use an empty <span slot="disabled-icon" /> or div to remove the default disabled icon.
slot="remove-icon": Custom icon to display as remove button. Will be used both by buttons to remove individual selected options and the 'remove all' button that clears all options at once. Receives no props.

Example:

<MultiSelect options={[`Red`, `Green`, `Blue`, `Yellow`, `Purple`]}>
  <span let:idx let:option slot="option">
    {idx + 1}
    {option.label}
    <span style:background={option.label} style=" width: 1em; height: 1em;" />
  </span>

  <span let:idx let:option slot="selected">
    {idx + 1}
    {option.label}
    <span style:background={option.label} style=" width: 1em; height: 1em;" />
  </span>

  <CustomSpinner slot="spinner">
  <strong slot="remove-icon">X</strong>
</MultiSelect>

Events

MultiSelect.svelte dispatches the following events:

on:add={(event) => console.log(event.detail.option)}

Triggers when a new option is selected.

```
on:remove={(event) => console.log(event.detail.option)}`
```
Triggers when one selected option provided as event.detail.option is removed.
```
on:removeAll={(event) => console.log(event.detail.options)}`
```
Triggers when all selected options are removed. The payload event.detail.options gives the options that were previously selected.
```
on:change={(event) => console.log(`${event.detail.type}: '${event.detail.option}'`)}
```
Triggers when an option is either added or removed, or all options are removed at once. type is one of 'add' | 'remove' | 'removeAll' and payload will be option: Option or options: Option[], respectively.
```
on:open={(event) => console.log(`Multiselect dropdown was opened by ${event}`)}
```
Triggers when the dropdown list of options appears. Event is the DOM's FocusEvent,KeyboardEvent or ClickEvent that initiated this Svelte dispatch event.
```
on:close={(event) => console.log(`Multiselect dropdown was closed by ${event}`)}
```
Triggers when the dropdown list of options disappears. Event is the DOM's FocusEvent, KeyboardEvent or ClickEvent that initiated this Svelte dispatch event.

For example, here's how you might annoy your users with an alert every time one or more options are added or removed:

<MultiSelect
  on:change={(e) => {
    if (e.detail.type === 'add') alert(`You added ${e.detail.option}`)
    if (e.detail.type === 'remove') alert(`You removed ${e.detail.option}`)
    if (e.detail.type === 'removeAll') alert(`You removed ${e.detail.options}`)
  }}
/>

Note: Depending on the data passed to the component the options(s) payload will either be objects or simple strings/numbers.

This component also forwards many DOM events from the <input> node: blur, change, click, keydown, keyup, mousedown, mouseenter, mouseleave, touchcancel, touchend, touchmove, touchstart. You can register listeners for these just like for the above Svelte dispatch events:

<MultiSelect
  options={[1, 2, 3]}
  on:keyup={(event) => console.log('key', event.target.value)}
/>

TypeScript

TypeScript users can import the types used for internal type safety:

<script lang="ts">
  import MultiSelect, { Option, ObjectOption } from 'svelte-multiselect'

  const myOptions: ObjectOption[] = [
    { label: 'foo', value: 42 },
    { label: 'bar', value: 69 },
  ]
  // an Option can be string | number | ObjectOption
  const myNumbers: Option[] = [42, 69]
</script>

Styling

There are 3 ways to style this component. To understand which options do what, it helps to keep in mind this simplified DOM structure of the component:

<div class="multiselect">
  <ul class="selected">
    <li>Selected 1</li>
    <li>Selected 2</li>
  </ul>
  <ul class="options">
    <li>Option 1</li>
    <li>Option 2</li>
  </ul>
</div>

With CSS variables

If you only want to make small adjustments, you can pass the following CSS variables directly to the component as props or define them in a :global() CSS context. See app.css for how these variables are set on the demo site of this component.

div.multiselect
- border: var(--sms-border, 1pt solid lightgray): Change this to e.g. to 1px solid red to indicate this form field is in an invalid state.
- border-radius: var(--sms-border-radius, 3pt)
- padding: var(--sms-padding, 0 3pt)
- background: var(--sms-bg)
- color: var(--sms-text-color)
- min-height: var(--sms-min-height, 19pt)
- max-width: var(--sms-max-width)
- margin: var(--sms-margin)
- font-size: var(--sms-font-size, inherit)
div.multiselect.open
- z-index: var(--sms-open-z-index, 4): Increase this if needed to ensure the dropdown list is displayed atop all other page elements.
div.multiselect:focus-within
- border: var(--sms-focus-border, 1pt solid var(--sms-active-color, cornflowerblue)): Border when component has focus. Defaults to --sms-active-color if not set which defaults to cornflowerblue.
div.multiselect.disabled
- background: var(--sms-disabled-bg, lightgray): Background when in disabled state.
div.multiselect input::placeholder
- color: var(--sms-placeholder-color)
- opacity: var(--sms-placeholder-opacity)
div.multiselect > ul.selected > li
- background: var(--sms-selected-bg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15)): Background of selected options.
- padding: var(--sms-selected-li-padding, 1pt 5pt): Height of selected options.
- color: var(--sms-selected-text-color, var(--sms-text-color)): Text color for selected options.
ul.selected > li button:hover, button.remove-all:hover, button:focus
- color: var(--sms-button-hover-color, lightskyblue): Color of the remove-icon buttons for removing all or individual selected options when in :focus or :hover state.
div.multiselect > ul.options
- background: var(--sms-options-bg, white): Background of dropdown list.
- max-height: var(--sms-options-max-height, 50vh): Maximum height of options dropdown.
- overscroll-behavior: var(--sms-options-overscroll, none): Whether scroll events bubble to parent elements when reaching the top/bottom of the options dropdown. See MDN.
- box-shadow: var(--sms-options-shadow, 0 0 14pt -8pt black): Box shadow of dropdown list.
div.multiselect > ul.options > li
- scroll-margin: var(--sms-options-scroll-margin, 100px): Top/bottom margin to keep between dropdown list items and top/bottom screen edge when auto-scrolling list to keep items in view.
div.multiselect > ul.options > li.selected
- background: var(--sms-li-selected-bg): Background of selected list items in options pane.
- color: var(--sms-li-selected-color): Text color of selected list items in options pane.
div.multiselect > ul.options > li.active
- background: var(--sms-li-active-bg, var(--sms-active-color, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15))): Background of active dropdown item. Items become active either by mouseover or by navigating to them with arrow keys.
div.multiselect > ul.options > li.disabled
- background: var(--sms-li-disabled-bg, #f5f5f6): Background of disabled options in the dropdown list.
- color: var(--sms-li-disabled-text, #b8b8b8): Text color of disabled option in the dropdown list.

For example, to change the background color of the options dropdown:

<MultiSelect --sms-options-bg="white" />

With CSS frameworks

The second method allows you to pass in custom classes to the important DOM elements of this component to target them with frameworks like Tailwind CSS.

outerDivClass: wrapper div enclosing the whole component
ulSelectedClass: list of selected options
liSelectedClass: selected list items
ulOptionsClass: available options listed in the dropdown when component is in open state
liOptionClass: list items selectable from dropdown list
liActiveOptionClass: the currently active dropdown list item (i.e. hovered or navigated to with arrow keys)

This simplified version of the DOM structure of the component shows where these classes are inserted:

<div class="multiselect {outerDivClass}">
  <input class={inputClass} />
  <ul class="selected {ulSelectedClass}">
    <li class={liSelectedClass}>Selected 1</li>
    <li class={liSelectedClass}>Selected 2</li>
  </ul>
  <ul class="options {ulOptionsClass}">
    <li class={liOptionClass}>Option 1</li>
    <li class="{liOptionClass} {liActiveOptionClass}">
      Option 2 (currently active)
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

With global CSS

Odd as it may seem, you get the most fine-grained control over the styling of every part of this component by using the following :global() CSS selectors. ul.selected is the list of currently selected options rendered inside the component's input whereas ul.options is the list of available options that slides out when the component is in its open state. See also simplified DOM structure.

:global(div.multiselect) {
  /* top-level wrapper div */
}
:global(div.multiselect.open) {
  /* top-level wrapper div when dropdown open */
}
:global(div.multiselect.disabled) {
  /* top-level wrapper div when in disabled state */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.selected) {
  /* selected list */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.selected > li) {
  /* selected list items */
}
:global(div.multiselect button) {
  /* target all buttons in this component */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.selected > li button, button.remove-all) {
  /* buttons to remove a single or all selected options at once */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.selected > li > input) {
  /* input inside the top-level wrapper div */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options) {
  /* dropdown options */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options > li) {
  /* dropdown list items */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options > li.selected) {
  /* selected options in the dropdown list */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options > li:not(.selected):hover) {
  /* unselected but hovered options in the dropdown list */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options > li.active) {
  /* active means item was navigated to with up/down arrow keys */
  /* ready to be selected by pressing enter */
}
:global(div.multiselect > ul.options > li.disabled) {
  /* options with disabled key set to true (see props above) */
}

Downstream testing

To test a Svelte component which imports svelte-multiselect, you need to configure your test runner to avoid transpiling issues.

For Jest, exclude svelte-multiselect from transformIgnorePatterns in your jest.config.json:

{
  "transformIgnorePatterns": ["node_modules/?!(svelte-multiselect)"],
  "transform": {
    "^.+\\.[t|j]s?$": "esbuild-jest",
    "^.+\\.svelte$": ["svelte-jester", { "preprocess": true }]
  }
}

For Vitest, include svelte-multiselect in deps.inline:

// vite.config.ts
import { svelte } from '@sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte'

export default {
  plugins: [svelte({ hot: !process.env.VITEST })],
  test: {
    deps: {
      inline: [/svelte-multiselect/],
    },
  },
}

Here's a Stackblitz example that also uses vitest-svelte-kit.

Want to contribute?

To submit a PR, clone the repo, install dependencies and start the dev server to try out your changes.

git clone https://github.com/janosh/svelte-multiselect
cd svelte-multiselect
npm install
npm run dev

v7.0.2

8 October 2022

Fix TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'get_label') - take 2 #131
Fix selecting options with falsy labels (like 0) #130

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Key features

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Props

Slots

Events

TypeScript

Styling

With CSS variables

With CSS frameworks

With global CSS

Downstream testing

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