Svelte MultiSelect

Keyboard-friendly, zero-dependency multi-select Svelte component.

Key Features

Single / multiple select: pass maxSelect={1} prop to only allow one selection
Dropdowns: scrollable lists for large numbers of options
Searchable: start typing to filter options
Tagging: selected options are recorded as tags within the text input
Server-side rendering: no reliance on browser objects like window or document
Configurable: see section props
No dependencies: needs only Svelte as dev dependency
Keyboard friendly for mouse-less form completion

Installation

yarn add -D svelte-multiselect

Usage

<script>
  import MultiSelect from 'svelte-multiselect'

  const webFrameworks = [
    `Svelte`,
    `React`,
    `Vue`,
    `Angular`,
    `Polymer`,
    `Ruby on Rails`,
    `ASP.net`,
    `Laravel`,
    `Django`,
    `Express`,
    `Spring`,
  ]

  let selected
</script>

Favorite Web Frameworks?

{JSON.stringify(selected, null, 2)}

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

Props

Full list of props/bindable variables for this component:

name	default	description
`options`	[required]	Array of strings (or numbers) that will be listed in the dropdown selection.
`maxSelect`	`null`	`null` or positive integer to allow users to select as many as they like or a maximum number of options, respectively.
`selected`	`[]` (or `''` if `maxSelect === 1`)	Array of currently/pre-selected options when binding/passing as props respectively.
`readonly`	`false`	Disables the input. User won't be able to interact with it.
`placeholder`	`''`	String shown when no option is selected.
`disabledOptions`	`[]`	Array of strings (or numbers) that will be disabled in the dropdown selection.
`required`	`false`	Prevents submission in an HTML form when true.
`input`	`undefined`	Handle to the DOM node storing the currently selected options in JSON format as its `value` attribute.
`name`	`''`	Used as `name` reference for associating HTML form `<label>`s with this component as well as for the `<input>`'s `id`. That is, the same DOM node bindable through `<MultiSelect bind:input />` is also retrievable via `document.getElementByID(name)` e.g. for use in a JS file outside a Svelte component.

Events

MultiSelect.svelte dispatches the following events:

name	details	description
`add`	`token: string`	Triggers when a new token is selected.
`remove`	`token: string`	Triggers when one or all selected tokens are removed. `event.detail.token` will be a single or multiple tokens, respectively.
`change`	`token: string`, `type: string`	Triggers when a token is either added or removed, or all tokens are removed at once. `event.detail.type` will be either `'add'` or `'remove'`.
`blur`	none	Triggers when the input field looses focus.

Examples

on:add={(event) => console.log(event.detail.token)}
on:remove={(event) => console.log(event.detail.token)}.
on:change={(event) => console.log(`${event.detail.type}: '${event.detail.token}'`)}
on:blur={yourFunctionHere}

<MultiSelect
  on:change={(e) => alert(`You ${e.detail.type}ed '${e.detail.token}'`)} />

Want to contribute?

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

git clone https://github.com/janosh/svelte-multiselect
cd svelte-multiselect
yarn
yarn dev

Styling

There are 3 ways to style this component.

With CSS variables

The first, if you only want to make small adjustments, allows you to pass the following CSS variables directly to the component as props.

border: var(--sms-border, 1pt solid lightgray): Border around top-level div.multiselect. 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, 5pt): div.multiselect border radius.
color: var(--sms-text-color, inherit): Input text color.
border: var(--sms-focus-border, 1pt solid var(--sms-active-color, cornflowerblue)): div.multiselect border when focused.
background: var(--sms-readonly-bg, lightgray): Background when in readonly state.
background: var(--sms-token-bg, var(--sms-active-color, cornflowerblue)): Background of selected tokens.
color: var(--sms-remove-x-hover-color, lightgray): Hover color of cross icon to remove selected tokens.
background: var(--sms-options-bg, white): Background of options list.
background: var(--sms-li-selected-bg, inherit): Background of selected list items in options pane.
color: var(--sms-li-selected-color, inherit): Text color of selected list items in options pane.
background: var(--sms-li-active-bg, var(--sms-active-color, cornflowerblue)): Background of active (currently with arrow keys highlighted) list item.
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="var(--my-css-var, 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
ulTokensClass
liTokenClass
ulOptionsClass
liOptionClass

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

<div class={outerDivClass}>
  <ul class={ulTokensClass}>
    <li class={liTokenClass}>First selected tag</li>
    <li class={liTokenClass}>Second selected tag</li>
  </ul>
  <ul class={ulOptionsClass}>
    <li class={liOptionClass}>First available option</li>
    <li class={liOptionClass}>Second available option</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Granular control through global CSS

You can alternatively style every part of this component with more fine-grained control by using the following :global() CSS selectors. Note: Overriding properties that the component already sets internally requires the !important keyword.

:global(.multiselect) {
  /* top-level wrapper div */
}
:global(.multiselect ul.tokens > li) {
  /* the blue tags representing selected options with remove buttons inside the input */
}
:global(.multiselect ul.tokens > li button),
:global(.multiselect button.remove-all) {
  /* buttons to remove a single or all selected options at once */
}
:global(.multiselect ul.options) {
  /* dropdown options */
}
:global(.multiselect ul.options li) {
  /* dropdown options */
}
:global(ul.options li.selected) {
  /* selected options in the dropdown list */
}
:global(ul.options li:not(.selected):hover) {
  /* unselected but hovered options in the dropdown list */
}
:global(ul.options li.selected:hover) {
  /* selected and hovered options in the dropdown list */
  /* probably not necessary to style this state in most cases */
}
:global(ul.options li.active) {
  /* active means element was navigated to with up/down arrow keys */
  /* ready to be selected by pressing enter */
}
:global(ul.options li.selected.active) {
}