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MultiSelect Overview

The MultiSelect is a form component that displays a list of options and allows for multiple selections from this list.

It is a richer version of the <select> element and supports custom rendering of popup items and tags, header and footer elements, virtualization, and configurable options for controlling the list behavior.

Basic Usage

The following example demonstrates the MultiSelect in action.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { MultiSelect } from '@progress/kendo-react-dropdowns';

const sports = [ "Baseball", "Basketball", "Cricket", "Field Hockey", "Football", "Table Tennis", "Tennis", "Volleyball" ];

class AppComponent extends React.Component {
    state = { value: [] };

    onChange = (event) => {
        this.setState({
            value: [ ...event.target.value ]
        });
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <div className="example-wrapper">
                <div>
                    <div>Favorite sports:</div>
                    <MultiSelect
                        data={sports}
                        onChange={this.onChange}
                        value={this.state.value}
                    />
                </div>
            </div>
        );
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(
    <AppComponent />,
    document.querySelector('my-app')
);

Functionality and Features

Events

The following example demonstrates basic MultiSelect events.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { MultiSelect } from '@progress/kendo-react-dropdowns';
import countries from './countries';

class AppComponent extends React.Component {
    state = { events: [] };

    onOpen = () => { this.log('open'); }
    onClose = () => { this.log('close'); }
    onFocus = () => { this.log('focus'); }
    onBlur = () => { this.log('blur'); }
    onChange = (event) => { this.log('change', event.target.value); }
    onFilterChange = (event) => { this.log('filterChange', event.filter.value); }

    render() {
        return (
            <div>
                <MultiSelect
                    data={countries}
                    onOpen={this.onOpen}
                    onClose={this.onClose}
                    onFocus={this.onFocus}
                    onBlur={this.onBlur}
                    onChange={this.onChange}
                    onFilterChange={this.onFilterChange}
                    filterable={true}
                    style={{ width: '400px' }}
                />
                <br />
                <br />
                <EventsLogger events={this.state.events} />
            </div>
        );
    }

    log(event, arg) {
        const events = this.state.events;
        events.unshift(`${event} ${arg || ""}`);

        this.setState({
            events: events
        });
    }
}

class EventsLogger extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <div className="example-config">
                <h5>Event log</h5>
                <ul className="event-log" style={{ textAlign: 'right' }}>
                    {this.props.events.map(function(event, index) {
                        return (<li key={index}>{event}</li>);
                    })}
                </ul>
            </div>
        );
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(
    <AppComponent />,
    document.querySelector('my-app')
);

export default [
    "Albania",
    "Andorra",
    "Armenia",
    "Austria",
    "Azerbaijan",
    "Belarus",
    "Belgium",
    "Bosnia & Herzegovina",
    "Bulgaria",
    "Croatia",
    "Cyprus",
    "Czech Republic",
    "Denmark",
    "Estonia",
    "Finland",
    "France",
    "Georgia",
    "Germany",
    "Greece",
    "Hungary",
    "Iceland",
    "Ireland",
    "Italy",
    "Kosovo",
    "Latvia",
    "Liechtenstein",
    "Lithuania",
    "Luxembourg",
    "Macedonia",
    "Malta",
    "Moldova",
    "Monaco",
    "Montenegro",
    "Netherlands",
    "Norway",
    "Poland",
    "Portugal",
    "Romania",
    "Russia",
    "San Marino",
    "Serbia",
    "Slovakia",
    "Slovenia",
    "Spain",
    "Sweden",
    "Switzerland",
    "Turkey",
    "Ukraine",
    "United Kingdom",
    "Vatican City"
];

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