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Select

<et2-select> | Et2Select
Since 23.1

Select one or more options from a given list

Slots

Name Description
(default) Reflected into listbox options. Must be sl-option elements. You can use sl-divider to group items visually. Normally you set the options by parameter.
prefix Used to prepend a presentational icon or similar element to the combobox.
help-text Text that describes how to use the input. Alternatively, you can use the help-text attribute.

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Properties

Name Description Reflects Type Default
clearable Adds a clear button when the select is not empty. boolean false
multiple Allows more than one option to be selected. boolean false
onTagClick Click handler for individual tags instead of the select as a whole. Only used if multiple=true so we have tags any -
placeholder Placeholder text to show as a hint when the select is empty. string ''
placement The preferred placement of the select’s menu. Note that the actual placement may vary as needed to keep the listbox inside of the viewport. 'top' | 'bottom' 'bottom'
tagTag
Tag used for rendering tags when multiple=true Used for creating, finding & filtering options. StaticValue -

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Inherited properties (26)

Et2Widget

Name Description
accesskey Accesskey provides a hint for generating a keyboard shortcut for the current element. The attribute value must consist of a single printable character.
actions Set Actions on the widget Each action is defined as an object: move: { type: “drop”, acceptedTypes: “mail”, icon: “move”, caption: “Move to” onExecute: javascript:mail_move” } This will turn the widget into a drop target for “mail” drag types. When “mail” drag types are dropped, the global function mail_move(egwAction action, egwActionObject sender) will be called. The ID of the dragged “mail” will be in sender.id, some information about the sender will be in sender.context. The etemplate2 widget involved can typically be found in action.parent.data.widget, so your handler can operate in the widget context easily. The location varies depending on your action though. It might be action.parent.parent.data.widget To customise how the actions are handled for a particular widget, override _link_actions(). It handles the more widget-specific parts.
align Used by Et2Box to determine alignment. Allowed values are left, right
class CSS Class. This class is applied to the outside, on the web component itself. Due to how WebComponents work, this might not change anything inside the component.
data Set the dataset from a CSV
deferredProperties Any attribute that refers to row content cannot be resolved immediately, but some like booleans cannot stay a string because it’s a boolean attribute. We store them for later, and parse when they’re fully in their row. If you are creating a widget that can go in a nextmatch row, and it has boolean attributes that can change for each row, add those attributes into deferredProperties
disabled Disables the select control.
dom_id Get the actual DOM ID, which has been prefixed to make sure it’s unique.
hidden The widget is not visible. As far as the user is concerned, the widget does not exist. Widgets hidden with an attribute in the template may not be created in the DOM, and will not return a value. Widgets can be hidden after creation, and they may return a value if hidden this way.
id Get the ID of the widget
label The select’s label. If you need to display HTML, use the label slot instead.
noLang Disable any translations for the widget
parentId Parent is different than what is specified in the template / hierarchy. Widget ID of another node to insert this node into instead of the normal location
statustext Tooltip which is shown for this element on hover
styles WebComponent *
options Get property-values as object
supportedWidgetClasses et2_widget compatability

Et2InputWidget

Name Description
autofocus Have browser focus this input on load. Overrides etemplate2.focusOnFirstInput(), use only once per page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input#attributes
hasFeedbackFor Get a list of feedback types
helpText The select’s help text. If you need to display HTML, use the help-text slot instead.
needed Compatibility for deprecated name “needed”

Et2WidgetWithSelect

Name Description
emptyLabel Textual label for first row, eg: ‘All’ or ‘None’. It’s value will be ″
select_options Select box options Will be found automatically based on ID and type, or can be set explicitly in the template using
translate List of properties that get translated
_optionTargetNode Get the node where we’re putting the options If this were a normal selectbox, this would be just the

LitElement

Name Description
updateComplete A read-only promise that resolves when the component has finished updating.

Events

Name React Event Description Event Detail
change Emitted when the control’s value changes. Event
sl-clear Emitted when the control’s value is cleared. -
sl-input Emitted when the control receives input. -
sl-focus Emitted when the control gains focus. -
sl-blur Emitted when the control loses focus. -
sl-show Emitted when the suggestion menu opens. -
sl-after-show Emitted after the suggestion menu opens and all animations are complete. -
sl-hide Emitted when the suggestion menu closes. -
sl-after-hide Emitted after the suggestion menu closes and all animations are complete. -

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Methods

Name Description Arguments
blur() Removes focus from the control. -
filterOutMissingOptions() Check a value for missing options and remove them. We’ll warn about it in the helpText, and if they save the change will be made. This is to avoid the server-side validation error, which the user can’t do much about. value: string[]
hide() Hides the listbox. -
show() Shows the listbox. -

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Inherited methods (32)

Et2Widget

Name Description
checkCreateNamespace() Checks whether a namespace exists for this element in the content array. If yes, an own perspective of the content array is created. If not, the parent content manager is used. Constructor attributes are passed in case a child needs to make decisions
clone() Creates a copy of this widget.
createElementFromNode() Create a et2_widget from an XML node. First the type and attributes are read from the node. Then the readonly & modifications arrays are checked for changes specific to the loaded data. Then the appropriate constructor is called. After the constructor returns, the widget has a chance to further initialize itself from the XML node when the widget’s loadFromXML() method is called with the node.
getArrayMgr() Returns the array manager object for the given part
getArrayMgrs() Returns an associative array containing the top-most array managers.
getChildren() Get child widgets Use .children to get web component children
getInstanceManager() Returns the instance manager
getPath() Returns the path into the data array. By default, array manager takes care of this, but some extensions need to override this
getRoot() Returns the base widget Usually this is the same as getInstanceManager().widgetContainer
loadingFinished() Needed for legacy compatability.
parseXMLAttrs() The parseXMLAttrs function takes an XML DOM attributes object and adds the given attributes to the _target associative array. This function also parses the legacyOptions. N.B. This is only used for legacy widgets. WebComponents use transformAttributes() and do their own handling of attributes.
set_label() NOT the setter, since we cannot add to the DOM before connectedCallback() TODO: This is not best practice. Should just set property, DOM modification should be done in render https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/guide/templates#design-a-performant-template
setArrayMgr() Sets the array manager for the given part
setArrayMgrs() Sets all array manager objects - this function can be used to set the root array managers of the container object.
setInstanceManager() Set the instance manager Normally this is not needed as it’s set on the top-level container, and we just return that reference
_handleClick() Click handler calling custom handler set via onclick attribute to this.onclick
set_class() Set the widget class
set_disabled() Wrapper on this.disabled because legacy had it.
set_statustext() supports legacy set_statustext

Et2InputWidget

Name Description
et2HandleFocus() When input receives focus, clear any validation errors. If the value is the same on blur, we’ll put them back The ones from the server (ManualMessage) can interfere with submitting. Named et2HandleFocus to avoid overwriting handleFocus() in Shoelace components
focus() Sets focus on the control.
getInputNode() Get input to e.g. set aria-attributes
handleSlChange() Handle sl-change event from Shoelace components and dispatch a change event so anything listening for change events can react to it instead of having to listen for both sl-change and change.
isValid() Used by etemplate2 to determine if we can submit or not
submit() Called whenever the template gets submitted. We return false if the widget is not valid, which cancels the submission.
validate() Massively simplified validate, as compared to what ValidatorMixin gives us, since ValidatorMixin extends FormControlMixin which breaks SlSelect’s render() We take all validators for the widget, and if there’s a value (or field is required) we check the value with each validator. For array values we check each element with each validator. If the value does not pass the validator, we collect the message and display feedback to the user. We handle validation errors from the server with ManualMessages, which always “fail”. If the value is empty, we only validate if the field is required.
_oldChange() Change handler calling custom handler set via onchange attribute

Et2WidgetWithSelect

Name Description
loadFromXML() Additional customisations from the XET node
optionSearch() Search options for a given value, returning the first matching option
_emptyLabelTemplate() Used for the “no value” option for single select Placeholder is used for multi-select with no value
destroy() et2_widget compatability
set_select_options() Set select options

Parts

Name Description
prefix The container that wraps the prefix slot.
tags The container that houses option tags when multiselect is used.
display-input The element that displays the selected option’s label, an element.
expand-icon The container that wraps the expand icon.
combobox The container the wraps the prefix, combobox, clear icon, and expand button.
listbox The listbox container where options are slotted.
option The options in the listbox container
icon Icon in the option
emptyLabel Wrapper around the label shown when there is no option selected
tag__prefix The container that wraps the option prefix
tag__suffix The container that wraps the option suffix
tag__limit Element that is shown when the number of selected options exceeds maxOptionsVisible

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