Multi-Select Feature

[husainhk]

Hi,

Possible to have multi-select on this? Not exactly what Chosen has offered, but somewhat like this:

http://www.erichynds.com/examples/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget/demos/

Cheers,
Husain

[mtkopone]

I (currently) think that there must be better UX ways of dealing with lists from which the user may select multiple items at once.

For example, selecting a values or a couple of values in jquery-ui-multiselect-widget then shows something like "1 selected" or "3 selected" in the header, which is pretty much meaningless to the user ("so which ones were they again?").

The optimal solution depends greatly on your actual UI-case at hand, but for this kind of functionality we've used something like http://anttis.github.io/beautylist/ with autocompletion always visible and validation forcing only valid "options" as input, and that has currently been adequate to our needs.

I'd like to keep the zelect codebase as simple as possible, i.e. optimal for the basic case of selection 1 thing. Support for multiple selections would probably e.g. cause major changes to all the callback-functions.

Of course, if you find a way to represent multiple selections in a usable way, fork and improve.