The ability to add custom items to a multi-select is a definite possibility - that would be fairly simple to implement. Thanks for the suggestion.

@jshjohnson if you are about to implement this feature can I also ask to apply this also for single select option tag? It would be great help on something I'm currently working...

@jshjohnson I would like to give you some input here, so for the single value:

http://codepen.io/dgt41/pen/xRbpwK/

And for the multiple values:

http://codepen.io/dgt41/pen/RoNxro

And couple remarks here:

• there should be an option for the value (both for single and multiple)
• the search should return ONLY exact results not partials as it is ATM

Hope this is somehow helpful

@jshjohnson any ETA here?

@dgt41

I'll be looking at this as soon as I can - very busy this week though. I'm happy to review pull requests.

Just to give an update, I've begun work on this within a feature branch

@jshjohnson I did some testing on the feature branch, so for the single the item is added but is not active:

For the multiple I do get some strange behaviour, adding a new item will also add another (already existing) item. I hope I can find some time debugging and contributing some code

FYI, I've a pushed a PR (#79) to help complete this feature.
Feel free to comment !

Thanks to the PR from @StephaneTrebel, we're close to getting this feature through the door.

Things left to do:

• Ensure the select box stays focussed after inputting a custom choice
• Ensure the duplicateItems config option works with select elements (i.e. no inputting a value that already exists)
• Ensure added values are shown in the dropdown if the dropdown contains groups

FYI, I've done some tests and I think that :

• Ensure the duplicateItems config option works with select elements (i.e. no inputting a value that already exists)

is ok.

I have not tested the groups since I don't use them yet. If I do I'll give a heads up :)

Sorry, I do not understand how I do it.
Is it working or not?
Or is it still in development?

@erikskar This feature is still in development (in the feature/select-add-items branch)

Can we help?

Hi @rstacruz - sure! I think this feature is really close to completion. It just needs some unit tests + some investigation into option groups (i.e what should happen if you have a groups of options and you add a new option).

@jshjohnson any progress here?
Can you release a beta (that doesn't include the groups part)?

Thanks

News...

There is still one issue here if you have a select box with groups - added items do not appear in the dropdown. I think in this situation a group should be added titled 'Miscellaneous' with custom items within it. I don't think this is a blocker though so i've merged this into version 2.8.0.

Sorry guys, I can not find any code for this feature. 😣
Could anyone tell me how to set the configs to support add items for multi-select?

@zhanglun This feature is no longer being actively worked on. To enable it requires a more fundamental refactor of Choices (which is in the pipeline)

@jshjohnson
Thank you very much. I really look forward to the new version

I am curious if this issue will ever be resolved. It is 2019, and the issue was raised in 2016. If there is a new version of Choices coming out, when will it release?

Also, I would suggest that until then this be listed as a limitation of the tool on the main page. I have wasted a significant amount of time integrating Choices.js into our UI, before discovering that there is no way to provide a list of tags (with -select- tag) and additionally also allow the user to add their own tags. Maybe other individuals can be saved from this frustration...

Wow. I thought that the Choices have this feature. I need it too.

I have wasted a significant amount of time integrating Choices.js into our UI, before discovering that there is no way to provide a list of tags (with ) and additionally also allow the user to add their own tags.

The same situation..

I think I want to give a shot at making this work. I also want to use it for a project.

For anyone looking for a good alternative that supports this feature see https://github.com/yairEO/tagify

For anyone looking for a good alternative that supports this feature see https://github.com/yairEO/tagify

Works neat!

Easy temporary workaround for anyone in need

It's not perfect and I don't actually recommend it but if you're in need/in a hurry - it's something.

I have wasted a significant amount of time integrating Choices.js into our UI, before discovering that there is no way to provide a list of tags (with ) and additionally also allow the user to add their own tags.

^^ Ditto, quite surprising.

I have wasted a significant amount of time integrating Choices.js into our UI, before discovering that there is no way to provide a list of tags (with ) and additionally also allow the user to add their own tags.

^^ Ditto, quite surprising.

I had found myself in the same situation. Check out the fix I made. It's been working fine in production since July.

I would love to see this as an option.

Still an issue in the end of 2022? OMG...

Today I discovered that this library does not support this function. 😢

still not possible ? ;s

I know this is really old; however, I did come up with a solution today for my needs that was very simple. I needed a way for a user to type a client name and if our database had a match the user can select the client. If there is not a match, the user can choose what they've searched for as the client.