Chapter 9. Intuitive Multiselect Combobox

In this chapter we will explore an excellent Ext JS extension: BoxSelect, which was originally developed by Kevin Vaughan. This extension is really very useful and provides a friendlier combobox for multiple selections that creates removable labels for each selection, easily and individually, and lots more.

The topics covered are:

• Features of BoxSelect

• The BoxSelect extension:

  • Basic configuration

  • Templates

  • Single value selection

  • Remote query with unknown values

  • Adding new records with autosuggestion

  • BoxSelect specific configurations

  • Value handling and events