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:

Events

MultiSelect.svelte dispatches the following types of 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.

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) {
}