Clearable selection on single select

[chrisidakwo]

I have a use case where a user can decide to deselect an already selected option in order to leave the select element without a selected value, I've looked around and it appears this plugin doesn't supports something like that.

Currently, the way I achieve it is to always have the first value empty, so it serves as something like a placeholder. However, it'll be great if the plugin has such feature in-built. Almost like the select2 plugin.

1. So here, I have a list of options
   

2. And then, I select one
   

3. How do I go back or cancel the selection? My current implementation is to use an empty option. Like the first option in the screenshot below:
   

4. And when selected, it looks like a placeholder
   

5. However, this would be great to have:

[chrisidakwo]

I think I should mention that I know there's a .selectpicker('refresh') method. However, this doesn't really work out of the box because one would still have to manually place the icon in the select button and then write an on-click function that deselects the selected option before calling this refresh method to reset the UI. It'll be best if the plugin provided this out-of-the-box.

[NicolasCARPi]

Can't you use data-showtick=true? On my select it allows to select and unselect by clicking it again. You can see it live here https://demo.elabftw.net/experiments.php in the Tags field on top of screen, middle.

[caseyjhol]

This is a duplicate of #1449 and is available in v1.14.x.