gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/development/fe_guide/droplab/plugins/filter.md

Filter

Filter is a plugin that allows for filtering data that has been added to the dropdown using a simple fuzzy string search of an input value.

Usage

Add the Filter object to the plugins array of a DropLab.prototype.init or DropLab.prototype.addHook call.

• Filter requires a configuration value for template.
• template should be the key of the objects within your data array that you want to compare to the user input string, for filtering.

<input href="#" id="trigger" data-dropdown-trigger="#list">
<ul id="list" data-dropdown data-dynamic>
  <li><a href="#" data-id="{{id}}">{{text}}</a></li>
<ul>

const droplab = new DropLab();

const trigger = document.getElementById('trigger');
const list = document.getElementById('list');

droplab.init(trigger, list, [Filter], {
  Filter: {
    template: 'text',
  },
});

droplab.addData('trigger', [{
  id: 0,
  text: 'Jacob',
}, {
  id: 1,
  text: 'Jeff',
}]);

Above, the input string will be compared against the test key of the passed data objects.

Optionally you can set filterFunction to a function. This function will be used instead of Filter's built in string search. filterFunction is passed 2 arguments, the first is one of the data objects, the second is the current input value.