Semantic-ui: Multiple Search Selection Dropdown: take/save new input

[Boasbabs]

Hi team Semantic-UI,

I am trying to use semantic UI multiple search selection dropdown in email input inside a form. My aim is to search from save email contacts and also take in new contacts, then send message to new input that is not saved/picked from the dropdowns. But i noticed that the new input isn't gotten from the field. so the message is not sent.
Please how do you make a multiple search dropdown save new inputs?

[kmd1970]

Have you tried allowAdditions?

allowAdditions : Whether search selection should allow users to add their own selections, works for single or multiselect.

http://semantic-ui.com/modules/dropdown.html#frequently-used-settings

also, usage questions should probably be asked in the forum http://forums.semantic-ui.com/ or http://stackoverflow.com/

[awgv]

Hi @Boasbabs, you might also want to validate your use case properly; someone did a demo to showcase his problem with such validation, and if I didn’t miss anything, here’s the gist of it:

$('.ui.dropdown').dropdown({
  allowAdditions: true,
  apiSettings: {
    response: {
      success: true,
      results: [
        {
          'name': '[email protected]',
          'value': '[email protected]'
        },
        {
          'name': '[email protected]',
          'value': '[email protected]'
        },
      ]
    },
  },
  hideAdditions: false,
  minCharacters: 3,
  showNoResults: true,
  // We use `onLabelCreate` callback to instantly remove invalid e-mail addresses:
  onLabelCreate: function(value, text) {
    if (!is_valid_email(value)) {
      window.setTimeout(function() {
        $('#users_dd')
          .dropdown('remove selected', value)
      }, 0)
    }

    return $(this)
  },
})

// Just basic email validation
function is_valid_email(email) {
  var re = /\S+@\S+\.\S+/
  return re.test(email)
}

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[Boasbabs]

Thank you everyone for the quick response.

I added this hideAdditions: false and it worked