Angularjs UI-Select

Question

I am using Angular ui-select (http://github.com/angular-ui/ui-select). The default behaviour of is to show all records containing the searched item, e.g. if the values contain:

ARMAGH ARGENTINA WARSAW

Typing 'AR' will find all of them. However, I only want it to match the beginning of the values, so in this case typing 'AR' should only find ARMAGH and ARGENTINA and not WARSAW. Is there a simple way to do this? Perhaps an option which I have missed?

Do yo expect this? plnkr.co/edit/PeRNWR5J8wpydzr3MJVW?p=preview — Asik
– Asik, Commented Nov 19, 2014 at 18:54

Asik · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-19 18:59:47Z

2

You want to filter the result from left to right. So you need to add this filter (it is case-insensitive search)

app.filter('left2right', function() {
   return function( items, input) {
    var filtered = [];

   if(input === undefined || input === ''){
      return items;
    }

    angular.forEach(items, function(item) {

      if(item.name.toLowerCase().indexOf(input.toLowerCase()) == 0){
        filtered.push(item);
      }
    });

    return filtered;
  };
});

Then, you need to update the filter as follows

<ui-select-choices repeat="country in countries | left2right: $select.search">

instead of regular filter

<ui-select-choices repeat="country in countries | filter: $select.search">

Working demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/PeRNWR5J8wpydzr3MJVW?p=preview

answered Nov 19, 2014 at 18:59

Asik

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