Description
Selectize is an extensible jQuery-based custom UI control. It's useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on. It clocks in at around ~7kb (gzipped). The goal is to provide a solid & usable experience with a clean and powerful API.
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Selectize is an extensible jQuery-based custom <select>
; UI control. It's useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on. It clocks in at around ~7kb (gzipped). The goal is to provide a solid & usable experience with a clean and powerful API.
- Demos
- Changelog
- [Examples](examples/)
- [Usage Documentation](docs/usage.md)
- [API Documentation](docs/api.md)
- [Plugin Documentation](docs/plugins.md)
- Browser Test Matrix
Features
- Smart Option Searching / Ranking Options are efficiently scored and sorted on-the-fly (using sifter). Want to search an item's title and description? No problem.
- Caret between items Order matters sometimes. Use the ← and → arrow keys to move between selected items.
- Select & delete multiple items at once Hold down option on Mac or ctrl on Windows to select more than one item to delete.
- Díåcritîçs supported Great for international environments.
- Item creation Allow users to create items on the fly (async saving is supported; the control locks until the callback is fired).
- Remote data loading For when you have thousands of options and want them provided by the server as the user types.
- Clean API & code Interface with it and make modifications easily. Pull requests welcome!
- Extensible [Plugin API](docs/plugins.md) for developing custom features (uses microplugin).
- Touch Support Plays nice with iOS 5+ devices.
Dependencies
- jquery (1.7 and greater), as peer dependency
- Note: it is installed automatically in development, or in projects using NPM 1 or 2. When using NPM from version 3 on, just a warning is thrown and the user needs to manually install an explicit version in their own project (e.g.
npm install --save [email protected]
).
- Note: it is installed automatically in development, or in projects using NPM 1 or 2. When using NPM from version 3 on, just a warning is thrown and the user needs to manually install an explicit version in their own project (e.g.
- sifter (bundled in ["standalone" build](dist/js/standalone))
- microplugin (bundled in ["standalone" build](dist/js/standalone))
Optional:
- jquery-ui (required by
drag_drop
plugin)
Installation
Selectize can be installed via NPM npm install @selectize/selectize
Installing Manually
All pre-built files needed to use Selectize can be found in the ["dist"](dist/) folder.
If you're looking to get started with minimal fuss, include
standalone/selectize.min.js
(bundles Sifter and Microplugin
dependencies – also available un-minified for debugging, just remove the
.min
part) and css/selectize.default.css
.
Selectize is available at cdnjs.
- [js/](dist/js)
- [standalone/](dist/js/standalone)
- [selectize.js](dist/js/standalone/selectize.js) — With dependencies, minus jquery
- [selectize.js](dist/js/selectize.js) — Without dependencies
- [scss/](dist/scss)
- [selectize.scss](dist/scss/selectize.scss) — Core styles
- [selectize.default.less](dist/scss/selectize.default.scss) — Default theme
- [selectize.bootstrap3.scss](dist/scss/selectize.bootstrap3.scss) - Bootstrap 3 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap4.scss](dist/scss/selectize.bootstrap4.scss) - Bootstrap 4 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap5.scss](dist/scss/selectize.bootstrap5.scss) - Bootstrap 5 theme
- [plugins/](dist/scss/plugins) — Individual plugin styles
- [less/](dist/less)
- [selectize.less](dist/less/selectize.less) — Core styles
- [selectize.default.less](dist/less/selectize.default.less) — Default theme
- [selectize.bootstrap2.less](dist/less/selectize.bootstrap2.less) — Bootstrap 2 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap3.less](dist/less/selectize.bootstrap3.less) — Bootstrap 3 theme
- [plugins/](dist/less/plugins) — Individual plugin styles
- [css/](dist/css)
- [selectize.css](dist/css/selectize.css) — Core styles
- [selectize.default.css](dist/css/selectize.default.css) — Default theme (with core styles)
- [selectize.bootstrap2.css](dist/css/selectize.bootstrap2.css) - Bootstrap 2 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap3.css](dist/css/selectize.bootstrap3.css) - Bootstrap 3 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap4.css](dist/css/selectize.bootstrap4.css) - Bootstrap 4 theme
- [selectize.bootstrap5.css](dist/css/selectize.bootstrap5.css) - Bootstrap 5 theme
Usage
$("select").selectize(options);
The available options are [documented here](docs/usage.md).
IE8 Support
To support Internet Explorer 8, es5-shim must be added your page.
<!--[if lt IE 9
]><script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/es5-shim/2.0.8/es5-shim.min.js"></script
><![endif]-->
Custom Builds
By default, all [plugins](src/plugins) are included. To hand-pick what plugins (if any) to include, run grunt
with the "--plugins" flag. After this completes, grab the files you need from the ["dist"](dist) folder.
# dependencies
npm install
# build selectize
grunt --plugins=
grunt --plugins=*
grunt --plugins=remove_button,restore_on_backspace
Contributing
When issuing a pull request:
please do not include/commit changes in the
dist/
folder to avoid merge conflicts. A good way to include the right files is to usegit gui
orgit add
when committing to select the files you want to add to your commit.please include tests with your feature so that we're not tempted to break it in the future!
Add an entry to the top of the CHANGELOG, and update the documentation
in docs/
as needed. (Refactors and documentation changes don't need a
changelog entry.)
Squash your commits together in one or a few complete, logical commits, with a concise and descriptive message. One commit means one feature/bugfix/thing that has changed, or a diff bringing the code one step forward to a better, working state.
Once your commit is nice and clean, and you want to discard the other
changes, you can use git checkout .
(that will erase changes to
tracked files) and git clean [-i/--interactive]
(to erase untracked
files). However, be careful with those commands, as their function
is to erase things/changes.
Tests
Please ensure all the tests pass:
npm test # phantomjs
BROWSERS=Firefox npm test
BROWSERS=Firefox,Chrome npm test
BROWSERS=Firefox,Chrome,Safari npm test
Local environment
To run Selectize locally:
npm start
You can then run the examples in http://localhost:4000/examples/
.
However, be careful not to add the dist/
files in your commit, as
Grunt automatically regenerates the files in dist/
as the source is
changed.
License
Copyright © 2013–2016 Brian Reavis & Contributors\ Copyright © 2020-2022 Selectize Team & Contributors
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the selectize.js README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.