SearchSelect: A searchable dropdown library.

Download search-select using below methods.

1. Git Release

https://github.com/workindia/search-select/releases

2. CDN

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/workindia/[email protected]/search-select.js

3. NPM

npm i search-select-js

Add search-select to your page:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="search-select.css">
<script src="search-select.js"></script>

You can create a hidden input with class Search-Select--Hidden-Input which will be used to create a search-select dropdown:

<input id="dropdown-input"
    name="dropdown-input"
    class="Search-Select--Hidden-Input"
    placeholder="Pick Your Item"
    data-search-placeholder="Search Your Item"
    hidden/>

To initialize search-select dropdown, add following to your javascript:

const searchSelectDropdown = new SearchSelect('#dropdown-input', {
    data: ['item1', 'item2', 'item3', 'item4'],
    filter: SearchSelect.FILTER_CONTAINS,
    sort: undefined,
    inputClass: 'form-control mobile-field',
    maxOpenEntries: 9,
    searchPosition: 'top',
    onInputClickCallback: function(ev) { console.log('Input Clicked') },
    onInputKeyDownCallback: function(ev) { console.log('Input Key Down') },
});

Search-select will set selected value to the hidden input (#dropdown-input). Selected value can be retrieved from the hidden input. Change event listener can be applied to the hidden input to watch any change in the value.

// Get selected value
const selectedValue = document.getElementById('dropdown-input').value;

// Add change listner
document.getElementById('dropdown-input').addEventListner('change', function(ev) { console.log('Value changed'); })

• data - Input data for dropdown
• filter - Filter criteria for dropdown search
• sort - Sort criteria for dropdown items
• inputClass - Custom class to be applied to the visible input
• maxOpenEntries - Maximum number of items visible when dropdown is open
• searchPosition - Position of search bar input
• dropdownPosition - Position of dropdown
• onInputClickCallback - Event called when search-select input is clicked
• onInputKeyDownCallback - Event called when a key is pressed in search bar

• openDropdown(focus) - Open dropdown. Pass focus=true if to set focus on search bar
• closeDropdown() - Close dropdown.
• setData(data) - Set dropdown list data.