In a .net MVC app, trying to learn semantic UI. (2.2.13) I've been beating my head against the wall on this one.
I have a remote populated dropdown, that I'm trying to create a default value for at initial page load.
The API is working, returning expected data.
My problem is that when a user 'tabs' into the element, the forceSelection default of the apiSettings forces the selection of the first item in the dropdown, which in this case is not what my default value is. (In this case, say that CAT is the first option in the list)
The desired behavior is keeping 'DOG' as the selected value when tabbed through, and i would like to keep the functionality of 'forceSelection' to prevent a user from leaving the dropdown with something typed that isn't included in the dropdown options.
I'm THINKING that i need a way of passing the current (default) value, and making that the selected value when the dropdown is initialized?
Here's the .js, in a doc ready.
$('.quom').dropdown({
apiSettings: {
url: 'ActualUrlRemoved',
cache: false
},
fields: {
name: 'Animal_Name',
value: 'Animal_Name'
},
onShow: function (val) {
///set active based on val here??
// $(this).val('DOG');
}
});
And the HTML setting the default 'DOG' (and using the "" value as the label) :
<select id="animalTest" name="ANIMAL" class="ui fluid search selection dropdown quom">
<option value="">Animal*</option>
<option value="DOG" selected>DOG</option>
</select>
Figured it out. This works for me.
$('.quom').dropdown({
apiSettings: {
url: 'URLHERE',
cache: false
},
fields: {
name: 'Animal_Name',
value: 'Animal_Name'
},
onShow: function () {
current = $(this).val();
$(this).dropdown('set selected', current);
}
});
The UI designer wants the select2 live search to complete when the 'matcher' function reduces the option set to 1 value, w/o having to press the enter key etc.
Is there a select2 setting for this?
You need to catch "results:all" event and trigger "result:select" - it will select currently highlighted item.
var select2 = new Select2({});
select2.on("results:all", function (params) {
if (params.data.results.length === 1) {
select2.trigger('results:select');
}
});
I'm able to get this working except for two things that I just can't figure out:
Problem 1: I need to get both of the following but right now can only achieve one OR the other:
Select options need to have value and text
The selectedOption captured in the model needs to return the object of the selected option and not just the value of the option
I can affect which one of these works by including or excluding the following from my select markup:
...data-bind="optionsValue = 'Id'"...
How can I achieve both?
Problem 2: I need to set the selected option in the dropdown to an object I retrieve from a cookie containing the user's preferred value. My below implementation does not succeed in setting the selected value at all. What am I missing?
$(document).ready(function(){
var userOption = $.cookie("userPref") == null ? undefined : JSON.parse($.cookie("userPref"));
var model = function(){
this.options = ko.observableArray();
this.childOptions = ko.observableArray();
this.selectedOption = ko.observable(userOption); //this does nothing to set the value
this.selectedOption(userOption); //this also does nothing
this.options.subscribe(function(){
//this.selectedOption() returns an object if optionsValue is excluded from select databinding and returns option value if included
$.cookie("userPref", JSON.stringify(this.selectedOption());
this.childOptions(undefined);
this.childOptions(this.selectedOption() ? this.selectedOption().children : []);
}.bind(this));
};
var viewModel = new model();
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "myurl",
success: function(data){
viewModel.options(data);
}
});
});
<select data-bind="options: options, optionsText: 'text', optionsValue: 'Id', value: selectedOption, optionsCaption: 'Select Option'"></select>
You can't use the entire object as the value because an option value must be a simple type: string, int, etc. I suppose you could JSON encode the object (so it's a string) and set the value to that, but then you'd have to reciprocate on the backend and decode the posted string value back into an object and somehow work with that. However, said object would be disconnected from EF, so you'd have to fetch the object new from the database anyways in order to do anything meaningful with it. And, your second problem is the same as your first, you can't use a full object.
The way this is usually done is with ids. You make the option value the object's id. Then, you can set the selected option based on the object's id from the cookie. When you get to the backend, if you need to work with the object, you fetch it by the posted id. Anything else is not really a tenable situation.
Select2 loads all items from my list successful, the issue I found when try to select a specific value when page loads. Example:
:: put select2 in a specific html element, no value is selected even all items are loaded.
$('#my_id').select2();
:: When the page is loaded I'm trying to show a specific item selected, but doesn't work as expected, because even selected, the select2 doesn't show it.
$('#my_id').val('3'); //select the right option, but doesn't render it on page loads.
How to make a selected option to pop up when pages loads?
Thanks in advance.
#UPDATED
:: How I load all select2 items (sorry, its jade, not pure HTML):
label(for='category') Category
span.required *
select(id='category', style='width:230px', name='category')
option(value='') - Select -
each cat in categories
option(value='#{cat.id}') #{cat.description}
P.S.: All items from my list are loaded.
:: How I initialize the select2:
Just put the following line code on my javascript and it does successful:
$('#category').select2();
:: How I'm trying to select a specific value:
First attempt:
$('#category').select2(
{
initSelection: function(element, callback) {
callback($('#field-category').val());
}
}
);
Second attempt:
$('#category').val($('#field-category').val());
P.S.: #field-category has a value its a hidden input field and works OK.
You need to use the initSelection option to set the initial value.
If you are using a pre-defined select element to create the select2, you can use the following method
$('select').select2().select2('val','3')
Demo: Fiddle
add a trigger change after setting val:
$('#my_id').val('3').trigger('change');
A very simple way to tackle this problem is :
//Step1: Here assuming id of your selectbox is my_id, so this will add selected attribute to 1st option
$('#my_id option').eq(0).prop('selected',true);
//Step2: Now reinitialize your select box
//This will work, if you haven't initialized selectbox
$('#my_id').select2();
or
//This will work, if you have initialized selectbox earlier, so destroy it first and initialise it
$('#my_id').select2('destroy').select2();
This may help:
$('#mySelect2').val('1'); // Select the option with a value of '1'
$('#mySelect2').trigger('change'); // Notify any JS components that the value changed
You can find more on details here:
Thanks
Per here initSelection is deprecated in Select2 4.0 and later.
Using Select2 4.0.0 this worked for me:
$('#my_id').select2({val:3});
HT: #Kokizzu
Here is how to make val in select2 just select the corresponding element.
For some reason, select2 doesn't provide the function to look up selections by id.
init:
$("#thing").select2({data:sources, initSelection: function(item, callback) {
// despite select2 having already read the whole sources list when you
// do .val(n) you have to explicitly tell it how to find that item again.
var to_be_selected = null;
$.each(sources, function(index, thing) {
if (thing.id == item.val()) {
to_be_selected = thing;
return;
}
})
callback(to_be_selected);
}})
normal code
// to load the thing with id==3 from the initial sources list.
$("#thing").select2({'val': 3})
For me I was sending selected in the data set still default option was not getting selected. I had to do something like below to make it work -
$(".select").select2({
data: data_names
});
data_names.forEach(function(name) {
if (name.selected) {
$(".select").select2('val', name.id);
}
});
I had a multiple select2 box with multiple selections.
Step 1 was to put my string of school_ids into an array of integers corresponding to the id of each school, and remove a leading zero. I had to do this in a separate script tag.
<script>
var school_ids = <%= raw JSON.parse(#search.school_ids).map{|x| x.to_i} - [0]%>
</script>
Step two was to create the select box, then set the values, then trigger like so:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.select2-multiple').select2({
placeholder: "Hit Enter After Selection",
width: 'resolve'
});
$('.select2-multiple').val(school_ids);
$('.select2-multiple').trigger('change');
</script>
trigger just select2 to set the value
$('#my_id').val('3').trigger("change.select2");
and this will trigger select2 with dropdown
$('#my_id').val('3').trigger("change");
I meet with the same problem, this works for me：
Using Select2 > 4.0.0
$('#select_id').val('3').trigger('change');
var option=$(this);
if(option.val()==data.StudentCourses.CourseId)
{
option.setAttribute('Selected');
}
});
i have initilized select2 because i just want few options selected from them.
If you are using select2 v4.0.0 or above, you can check select2 documentation
// Initialize select2 for all select tags
$('select').select2();
// Initialize select2 for a specific id
$('#my-id').select2();
// Initialize select2 for a class
$('.my-class').select2();
// Update the displayed value after changing the selected option.
$('#my-id').trigger('change');
$('.classname').each(function() {
$(this).siblings().find('.select2selection__rendered').text($(this).text())
})
in my case I were dealing with a class then I used this way to set showing content at select2
<option selected value="your_value">your_text</option>
u need to put this at each select box's first option
I'm using jqueryui's autocomplete widget (ui v1.8.4) as a helping tool for a sitesearch.
Without autocomplete the user types in his query, presses enter or search-button and get the results on result-page.
Autocomplete should work as addition while the user types. ... but if i type in a searchterm, i get the list from autocomplete. but now i have to choose one item of it instead of just hitting enter to get to the results page, as i have done without autocomplete.
$("#searchForm input").autocomplete({
source: "/suche",
minLength: 3,
delay: 100
});
I have jQuery UI autocomplete for a similar usecase: quick results as you type, full result page if you press enter.
You could probably change your code like so:
$("#searchForm input").autocomplete({ source: "/suche", minLength: 3, delay: 100 }).keydown(function(e){
if (e.keyCode === 13) {
$(this).closest('form').trigger('submit');
}
});
Which will submit the parent form of your search box. But obviously you could place any kind of custom logic in there.