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Features

• Lightweight, with zero dependencies
• Accessible
• Headless mode
• Basic HTML select functionality, including multiple
• Search/filter options
• Async options
• Apply renderers to change markup and behavior
• Keyboard support
• Group options with group names, you can search group names
• Fully stylable

Install

Install it with npm (npm i react-select-search) or yarn (yarn add react-select-search) and import it like you normally would.

Quick start

import SelectSearch from 'react-select-search';

/**
 * The options array should contain objects.
 * Required keys are "name" and "value" but you can have and use any number of key/value pairs.
 */
const options = [
    {name: 'Swedish', value: 'sv'},
    {name: 'English', value: 'en'},
    {
        type: 'group',
        name: 'Group name',
        items: [
            {name: 'Spanish', value: 'es'},
        ]
    },
];

/* Simple example */
<SelectSearch options={options} value="sv" name="language" placeholder="Choose your language" />

For more examples, you can take a look in the stories directory.

You will also need some CSS to make it look right. Example theme can be found in style.css. You can also import it:

import 'react-select-search/style.css'

Use with SSR

For use with SSR you might need to use the commonjs bundle (react-select-search/dist/cjs). If you want to utilise the example theme (style.css) you need to check if your build script manipulates class names, for example minifies them. If that's the case, you can use CSS modules to get the class names from the style.css file and apply them using the className object. Example can be seen here as well as here https://react-select-search.com/?path=/story/custom--css-modules.

Headless mode with hooks

If you want complete control (more than styling and custom renderers) you can use hooks to pass data to your own components and build it yourself.

import React from 'react';
import { useSelect } from 'react-select-search';

const CustomSelect = ({ options, value, multiple, disabled }) => {
    const [snapshot, valueProps, optionProps] = useSelect({
        options,
        value,
        multiple,
        disabled,
    });

    return (
        <div>
            <button {...valueProps}>{snapshot.displayValue}</button>
            {snapshot.focus && (
                <ul>
                    {snapshot.options.map((option) => (
                        <li key={option.value}>
                            <button {...optionProps} value={option.value}>{option.name}</button>
                        </li>
                    ))}
                </ul>
            )}
        </div>
    );
};

Configuration

Below is all the available options you can pass to the component. Options without defaults are required.

Name	Type	Default	Description
options	array		See the options documentation below
getOptions	function	null	Get options through a function call, can return a promise for async usage. See get options for more.
filterOptions	array	null	An array of functions that takes the last filtered options and a search query if any. Runs after getOptions.
value	string, array	null	The value should be an array if multiple mode.
multiple	boolean	false	Set to true if you want to allow multiple selected options.
search	boolean	false	Set to true to enable search functionality
disabled	boolean	false	Disables all functionality
closeOnSelect	boolean	true	The selectbox will blur by default when selecting an option. Set this to false to prevent this behavior.
debounce	number	0	Number of ms to wait until calling get options when searching.
placeholder	string	empty string	Displayed if no option is selected and/or when search field is focused with empty value.
id	string	null	HTML ID on the top level element.
autoComplete	string, on/off	off	Disables/Enables autoComplete functionality in search field.
autoFocus	boolean	false	Autofocus on select
className	string, object	select-search-box	Set a base class string or pass a function for complete control. Se custom classNames for more.
renderOption	function	null	Function that renders the options. See custom renderers for more.
renderGroupHeader	function	null	Function that renders the group header. See custom renderers for more.
renderValue	function	null	Function that renders the value/search field. See custom renderers for more.
emptyMessage	React node	null	Set empty message for empty options list, you can provide render function without arguments instead plain string message
onChange	function	null	Function to receive and handle value changes.
onFocus	function	null	Focus callback.
onBlur	function	null	Blur callback.

The options object

The options object can contain any properties and values you like. The only required one is name.

Property	Type	Description	Required
name	string	The name of the option	Yes
value	string	The value of the option	Yes, if the type is not "group"
type	string	If you set the type to "group" you can add an array of options that will be grouped	No
items	array	Array of option objects that will be used if the type is set to "group"	Yes, if type is set to "group"
disabled	boolean	Set to true to disable this option	No

Custom class names

If you set a string as the className attribute value, the component will use that as a base for all elements. If you want to fully control the class names you can pass an object with classnames. The following keys exists:

• container
• value
• input
• select
• options
• row
• option
• group
• group-header
• is-selected
• is-highlighted
• is-loading
• is-multiple
• has-focus

Custom renderers

If CSS isn't enough, you can also control the HTML for the different parts of the component.

Callback	Args	Description
renderOption	optionsProps: object, optionData: object, optionSnapshot: object, className: string	Controls the rendering of the options.
renderGroupHeader	name: string	Controls the rendering of the group header name
renderValue	valueProps: object, snapshot: object, className: string	Controls the rendering of the value/input element

The optionProps and the valueProps are needed for the component you render to work. For example:

<SelectSearch renderValue={(valueProps) => <input {...valueProps} />} />

Monkeypatch it if you need to but make sure to not remove important props.

The optionSnapshot is an object that contains the object state: { selected: bool, highlighted: bool }.

Get options

You can fetch options asynchronously with the getOptions property. You can either return options directly or through a Promise.

function getOptions(query) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        fetch(`https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s=${query}`)
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(({ drinks }) => {
                resolve(drinks.map(({ idDrink, strDrink }) => ({ value: idDrink, name: strDrink })))
            })
            .catch(reject);
    });
}

The function runs on each search query update, so you might want to throttle the fetches. If you return a promise, the class is-loading will be applied to the main element, giving you a chance to change the appearance, like adding a spinner. The property fetching is also available in the snapshot that is sent to your render callbacks.