Angular Multiselect Dropdown - Updated to work with Angular 14, 15, 16, 17


Angular 2 multiselect dropdown component for web applications. Easy to integrate and use.


Important Notice !!

##### From v3.0.0 onwards, you need to include default.theme.css file to get the basic styling of the dropdown. Refer to themes and theming section below

Documentation | Demos / Examples.

Table of Contents

##### 1. Getting Started
##### 2. Installation
##### 3. Usage
##### 4 Theming
##### 5. Templates
##### 6. Template Driven Forms support
##### 7. Reactive Forms support
##### 8. Settings configuration
##### 9. Callbacks and events
##### 10. Lazy lodaing - handle large data lists
##### 11. Group By feature
##### 12. Search filter for both plain list and grouped list
##### 13. Custom Search / Search API

Getting Started

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- The Mutiselect Dropdown package is published on the npm Registry.
- Install the package :
npm install angular2-multiselect-dropdown

- Once installed import AngularMultiSelectModule from the installed package into your module as follows:

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Import AngularMultiSelectModule into NgModule in app.module.ts. Angular's FormsModule is also required.
``js
import { AngularMultiSelectModule } from 'angular2-multiselect-dropdown';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

@NgModule({
// ...
imports: [
AngularMultiSelectModule,
FormsModule
]
// ...
})

`

Declare the component data variables and options in your component where you want to consume the dropdown component.

`js

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
dropdownList = [];
selectedItems = [];
dropdownSettings = {};
ngOnInit(){
this.dropdownList = [
{"id":1,"itemName":"India"},
{"id":2,"itemName":"Singapore"},
{"id":3,"itemName":"Australia"},
{"id":4,"itemName":"Canada"},
{"id":5,"itemName":"South Korea"},
{"id":6,"itemName":"Germany"},
{"id":7,"itemName":"France"},
{"id":8,"itemName":"Russia"},
{"id":9,"itemName":"Italy"},
{"id":10,"itemName":"Sweden"}
];
this.selectedItems = [
{"id":2,"itemName":"Singapore"},
{"id":3,"itemName":"Australia"},
{"id":4,"itemName":"Canada"},
{"id":5,"itemName":"South Korea"}
];
this.dropdownSettings = {
singleSelection: false,
text:"Select Countries",
selectAllText:'Select All',
unSelectAllText:'UnSelect All',
enableSearchFilter: true,
classes:"myclass custom-class"
};
}
onItemSelect(item:any){
console.log(item);
console.log(this.selectedItems);
}
OnItemDeSelect(item:any){
console.log(item);
console.log(this.selectedItems);
}
onSelectAll(items: any){
console.log(items);
}
onDeSelectAll(items: any){
console.log(items);
}
}
`

Add the following component tag in you template
`html
[settings]="dropdownSettings"
(onSelect)="onItemSelect($event)"
(onDeSelect)="OnItemDeSelect($event)"
(onSelectAll)="onSelectAll($event)"
(onDeSelectAll)="onDeSelectAll($event)">

`

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- From v3.0.0 onwards, you need to include default.theme.css file to get the basic styling of the dropdown.
- The component package has a themes folder in node_modules at angular2-multiselect-dropdown\themes\default.theme.css
- Include the default.theme.css in angular-cli.json (for versions below angular 6) and angular.json (for version 6 or more).
- Refer this file on how to add the css file to your angular project.

You can create your own theme from now on. You can have a look at example scss theming file at Default theme




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`html



{{item.itemName}}

Capital - {{item.capital}}




`

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`html



{{item.itemName}}





`

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`html

Skills
[settings]="settings"
(onSelect)="onItemSelect($event)"
(onDeSelect)="OnItemDeSelect($event)"
(onSelectAll)="onSelectAll($event)"
(onDeSelectAll)="onDeSelectAll($event)" name="skills">

`

`js

formModel = {
name: '',
email: 'ascasc@aa.com',
skills: [{ "id": 1, "itemName": "Angular" }]
};

`

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`html

Skills
[settings]="settings"
(onSelect)="onItemSelect($event)"
(onDeSelect)="OnItemDeSelect($event)"
(onSelectAll)="onSelectAll($event)"
(onDeSelectAll)="onDeSelectAll($event)" formControlName="skills">

`

`js
userForm: FormGroup;
this.userForm = this.fb.group({
name: '',
email: ['', Validators.required],
skills: [[], Validators.required]
});

`

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The following list of settings are supported by the component. Configure the settings to meet your requirement.

| Setting |Type | Description | Default Value |
|:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |
| singleSelection | Boolean | To set the dropdown for single item selection only. | false |
| text | String | Text to be show in the dropdown, when no items are selected. | 'Select' |
| enableCheckAll | Boolean | Enable the option to select all items in list | false |
| selectAllText | String | Text to display as the label of select all option | Select All |
| unSelectAllText | String | Text to display as the label of unSelect option | UnSelect All |
| enableSearchFilter | Boolean | Enable filter option for the list. | false |
| enableFilterSelectAll | Boolean | A 'select all' checkbox to select all filtered results. | true |
| filterSelectAllText | String | Text to display as the label of select all option | Select all filtered results |
| filterUnSelectAllText | String | Text to display as the label of unSelect option | UnSelect all filtered results |
| maxHeight | Number | Set maximum height of the dropdown list in px. | 300 |
| badgeShowLimit | Number | Limit the number of badges/items to show in the input field. If not set will show all selected. | All |
| classes | String | Custom classes to the dropdown component. Classes are added to the dropdown selector tag. To add multiple classes, the value should be space separated class names.| '' |
| limitSelection | Number | Limit the selection of number of items from the dropdown list. Once the limit is reached, all unselected items gets disabled. | none |
| disabled | Boolean | Disable the dropdown | false |
| searchPlaceholderText | String | Custom text for the search placeholder text. Default value would be 'Search' | 'Search' |
| groupBy | String | Name of the field by which the list should be grouped. | none |
| selectGroup | Boolean | Select a group at once. GroupBy should be enabled, to use this. | false |
| searchAutofocus | Boolean | Autofocus search input field| true |
| labelKey | String | The property name which should be rendered as label in the dropdown| itemName |
| primaryKey | String | The property by which the object is identified. Default is 'id'.| id |
| position | String | Set the position of the dropdown list to 'top' or 'bottom'| bottom |
| noDataLabel | String | Label text when no data is available in the list| 'No Data Available' |
| searchBy | Array | Search the list by certain properties of the list item. Ex: ["itemName, "id","name"]. Deafult is , it will search the list by all the properties of list item | [] |
| lazyLoading | Boolean | Enable lazy loading. Used to render large datasets. | false |
| showCheckbox | Boolean | Show or hide checkboxes in the list | true |
| addNewItemOnFilter | Boolean | Whe you filter items and if, the item is not found, you can add the text as new item to the list | false |
| addNewButtonText | String | The text in the button when addNewItemOnFilter is enabled | 'Add' |
| escapeToClose | boolean | Press excape key to close the dropdown | true |
| autoPosition | boolean | Enable dropdown to open either on 'top' or 'bottom' Ex: settings = { position: 'bottom', autoPosition: false }; open the dropdown always at bottom | true |
| tagToBody | boolean | If the dropdown to be appended to body or not ? | true |

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- onSelect - Return the selected item on selection.
Example : (onSelect)="onItemSelect($event)"
- onDeSelect - Return the un-selected item on un-selecting.
Example : (onDeSelect)="OnItemDeSelect($event)"
- onSelectAll - Return the list of all selected items.
Example : (onSelectAll)="onSelectAll($event)"
- onDeSelectAll - Returns an empty array.
Example : (onDeSelectAll)="onDeSelectAll($event)"
- onGroupSelect - Returns the selected group items as an array.
Example: (onGroupSelect)="onGroupSelect($event)"
- onGroupDeSelect - Returns the sun-elected group items as an array.
Example: (onGroupDeSelect)="onGroupDeSelect($event)"
- onOpen - Callback method fired after the dropdown opens
Example : (onOpen)="onOpen($event)"
- onClose - Callback method, fired when the dropdown is closed
Example : (onClose)="onClose($event)"
- onScrollToEnd - Callback event fired when the dropdown list is scrolled to the end. Usually used with virtual scrolling, to load data on scroll.
Example : (onScrollToEnd)="fetchMore($event)"
- onAddFilterNewItem - Callback event fired when you click the Add button which will appear when addNewItemOnFilter setting is enabled.
Example : (onAddFilterNewItem)="onAddItem($event)"
- onFilterSelectAll - Callback event fired when the list is filtered and all filtered items are selected with select all filtered items checkbox.
Example : (onFilterSelectAll)="onFilterSelectAll($event)"
- onFilterDeSelectAll - Callback event fired when the list is filtered and all filtered items are de-selected with de-select all filtered items checkbox.
Example : (onFilterDeSelectAll)="onFilterDeSelectAll($event)"

Run locally

- Clone the repository or downlod the .zip,.tar files.
- Run npm install
- Run ng serve for a dev server
- Navigate to http://localhost:4200/`
The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

License

MIT License.