Selectarr

Turn simple text inputs into a select-type dropdown

Javascript

import Selectarr from "selectarr";

Parameter	Description	Type
element	The element selector	String
options	All of the options	Object

Example

const options = {
  class: "custom-select",
  limit: 5,
  items: [
    "Single string for label and value",
    "Another one",
    {
      label: "Or specify label and value.",
      value: "object-label-value",
    },
    {
      label: "John Doe",
      value: "john",
    },
    {
      label: "Foo Bar",
      value: "foo",
    },
  ],
};

new Selectarr(".input", options);

Options

Key	Description	Default	Type
class	Base class name	Selectarr	String
limit	Limits list items	10	Number
items	Array of objects with label and values or single string for both.		Array

HTML

Your input element requires the attribute data-selectarr.

<input class="input" type="text" name="username" data-selectarr />

After Selectarr is run, your HTML will look like:

<div class="selectarr">
  <input class="input" id="input" type="text" data-selectarr />
  <input class="selectarr-input" type="hidden" name="username" />
  <ul class="selectarr-list" data-selectarr-list></ul>
</div>

Classes are defaulted to have the selectarr prefix. This can be changed in the options.

Element	Class name
Parent	<class>
Hidden input	<class>-input
List	<class>-list
List item	<class>-item

Only the hidden input will be submitted.

CSS

Include in Sass:

@import "~selectarr/src/stylesheets/selectarr";

note: This stylesheet includes styles for the default class names.

Sass variables used for the generated list of values:

Element	Default value	Description
$selectarr-border	1px	Border width
$selectarr-border-color	#e8ebec	Border colour
$selectarr-bg	#fff	Background colour
$selectarr-zindex	10	z-index
$selectarr-item-spacing-y	.6rem	Padding top and bottom of each list item
$selectarr-item-spacing-x	1.2rem	Padding left and right of each list item