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User add item & multi-select

See original GitHub issue

Is it possible to mix multi-select with the users ability to add custom items? Or alternatively, give the text field some predefined suggestions in the style of the multi-select?

I’ve tried setting the choices option when targeting a text field, but it doesn’t seem to work.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Reactions:4
  • Comments:30 (8 by maintainers)

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jshjohnsoncommented, Nov 8, 2016

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

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garyappscommented, Jan 25, 2019

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…

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