vanilla-select

A vanilla, lightweight (~2.5kb gzipped), configurable select box component.

Demo Page

Advantages

• Lightweight
• No Dependencies
• Elegant API - inspiration taken from React.Component
• Fast search

Installation

With NPM:

npm install vanilla-select --save-dev

With Bower:

bower install vanilla-select --save-dev

Or include directly:

<!-- Include CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/vanilla-select.min.css">
<!-- Include JavaScript -->
<script src="/dist/vanilla-select.min.js"></script>

Setup

  const source = [{
        icon: 'fa-font',
        value: 'Amatic SC'
    }];
  		
  const select = new Select({
            placeholder: 'Select Font',
            dataset: source,
            search: true,
            noResults: 'No results found',
            onSelected: item => callback(item)
        }).componentMount({
            el: document.querySelector('[ref="select"]')
        });

Configuration

Option	Definition
placeholder	Type: String Default: '' Placeholder text
dataset	Type: Array Default: [] Equivelant to the element within a select
search	Type: Boolean Default: false Whether a user should be allowed to search
noResults	Type: String Default: '' The text that is shown when search has returned no results
selected	Type: Object Default: null Default selected option
onSelected	Arguments: item Callback, invoked each time the item is selected, regardless if it changes the value

Development

To setup a local environment: clone this repo, navigate into it's directory in a terminal window and run the following command:

npm install

Browser compatibility

vanilla-select is compiled using Closure Compiler to enable support for ES5 browsers.

Browsers

Edge 15+ Chrome 41+ FireFox 35+ Opera 28+ Safari 9+

If you need to support IE11 and IE Edge14 - use vanilla-select-ie.min.js bundle. It includes element-closest polyfill.

Gulp tasks

Task	Usage
gulp build	Build JS an CSS
gulp serve	Fire up local server for development

Roadmap

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License

MIT License