React tailwindcss select

React-tailwindcss-select is a simple component ready to be inserted into your project. This component inspired by React-select is a select input made with Tailwindcss and React.

Features

• Select field for a single item
• Selection field for multiple items
• Optional button to clear the field
• Optional search for an item
• Optional deactivation of an option

Why

A select with the above features is above all indispensable in many projects. On a project using tailwindcss, when I install react-select or other such packages, the style of the latter is affected by that of tailwind.

Rather than looking for a component that uses tailwind, I preferred to make my own based on react-select which I like (and also because I generally like to reinvent the wheel 😅).

Online Demo

You can find the online demo at here

Install

You can use yarn

yarn add react-tailwindcss-select

Or via npm

npm install react-tailwindcss-select

make sure you have installed the peer dependencies as well with the below versions.

"prop-types": "^15.8.1",
"react": "^18.2.0"

Usage

This component also exports a tiny CSS file built by tailwind. All CSS classes used in designing and customizing the select component are all custom tailwind classes which ensures that an existing tailwind project would not need to include this CSS file again.

Tailwind Project

A tailwind project would only have to import the react component using import Select from 'react-tailwindcss-select' and specify the component in the tailwind configuration to generate the styles of the classes used by react-tailwindcss-select.

Use this code to add the component to the tailwind configuration

// in your tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
    // ...
    content: ["./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}", "./node_modules/react-tailwindcss-select/dist/index.esm.js"],
    // ...
}

None Tailwind Project

On a project that does not use tailwind, you need to import the component's CSS as well. To do this use these two codes: import Select from 'react-tailwindcss-select' and import 'react-tailwindcss-select/dist/index.css'

Warning In this case when you don't use tailwind on your project, think about isolating the component and its style so that tailwind doesn't affect the style of the elements in your project. For this, you can use the shadow dom.

Then use react-tailwindcss-select in your app:

With React Component

import React from 'react';
import Select from 'react-tailwindcss-select';

const options = [
    {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox"},
    {value: "Butterfly", label: "🦋 Butterfly"},
    {value: "Honeybee", label: "🐝 Honeybee"},
];

class App extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {animal: null};

        this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
    }

    handleChange(value) {
        console.log("value:", value);
        this.setState({animal: value});
    }

    render() {
        const { animal } = this.state;

        return (
            <Select
                value={animal}
                onChange={this.handleChange}
                options={options}
            />
        );
    }
}

With React Hooks

import {useState} from 'react';
import Select from 'react-tailwindcss-select';

const options = [
    {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox"},
    {value: "Butterfly", label: "🦋 Butterfly"},
    {value: "Honeybee", label: "🐝 Honeybee"},
];

const App = () => {
    const [animal, setAnimal] = useState(null);
    
    const handleChange = (value) => {
        console.log("value:", value);
        setAnimal(value);
    };
    
    return (
        <Select
            value={animal}
            onChange={handleChange}
            options={options}
        />
    );
};

export default App;

Props

This table shows all the options available in react-tailwindcss-select.

Option	Type	Default	Description
isClearable	Boolean	true	Indicates if you can empty the select field.
isDisabled	Boolean	false	Indicates if you can disable the select field.
isMultiple	Boolean	false	Indicates if you can do a multiple selection.
isSearchable	Boolean	true	Indicates if you can search the elements of the select field.
loading	Boolean	false	Indicates if you want a loader to appear in the field.
menuIsOpen	Boolean	false	Indicates if you want the options menu to be displayed by default.
noOptionsMessage	String	No results found	Default message when there is no option in the select field.
onChange	Function		This callback, if present, is triggered when the select field value is modified.
options	Array	[]	All options available in the select field.
placeholder	String	Select...	The placeholder shown for the select field.
searchInputPlaceholder	String	Search...	The placeholder shown for the search input field.
value	Object	null	Current value of select field.

onChange

This callback, if present, is triggered when the select field value is modified. This callback takes as a parameter the current value(s) selected. These values respect the same structure as the elements of the options.

(currentValue) => {
    console.log("currentValue:", currentValue);
};

options

All options are available in the select field. Each option element must have a value property that serves as an identifier for the element, a label property that is the text that is displayed in the options list, and an optional disabled property to specify whether the element is active.

// default element
const options =  [ {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox"} ];
// default element with `disabled`
const options =  [ {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox", disabled: true} ];

value

The current value of the select field. These objects must follow the same structure as an options element. Thus, the following would work:

// default element Simple Select
const value =  {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox"};
// default element with `disabled` Simple Select
const value =  {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox", disabled: true};
// default element Multiple Select
const value =  [ {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox"} ];
// default element with `disabled` Multiple Select
const value =  [ {value: "fox", label: "🦊 Fox", disabled: true} ];

Contributing

Got ideas on how to make this better? Open an issue!

Thanks

This component is inspired by the excellent react-select library by Jed Watson.

I thank you in advance for your contribution to this project.

License

MIT Licensed. Copyright (c) Lewhe Onesine 2022.