[Dropdown][Search Selection] Match any part of the string

[adrazich]

This is a feature request.

Currently, when you search in a dropdown it matches the string from the beginning only. You can't search for something in the middle of the string (LIKE% matches, %LIKE% doesn't). For example, if you want to search a dropdown of users and you type their last name but no results are found unless you type the first name first.

Example

http://semantic-ui.com/modules/dropdown.html

What happens

• Go to the country dropdown search select.
• Type states
• No results found.

What's expected

• Go to the country dropdown search select.
• Type states
• United States shown in the list as a match.

Example of expected

jQuery's autocomplete does this and there is an example here: https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#combobox

[kmd1970]

Under Settings (tab), Additional Settings:

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

fullTextSearch : Whether search selections should look for string match anywhere in string.

$('.ui.dropdown').dropdown({ fullTextSearch: true });

Hope that helps.

[adrazich]

That works. Didn't see that in the docs. Thank you. :)

[duapraveen]

fullTextSearch=true doesn't appear to do a substring match for the query-string in the items. instead, it appears to match in order occurrence of all characters of the query-string in the item with any other characters interspersed (example : query-string 'temp' will match 'mytestmatchpick' and 'mytemperature' ).

Any idea how to restrict to a strict substing match behavior ?

[basselAhmed]

I can confirm @duapraveen problem, we really need a fix for this

[duapraveen]

fullTextSearch=exact seems to do what i needed - looks for the query-string anywhere in the strings.

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

[basselAhmed]

Thanks @duapraveen for your response but that didn't work for me in search

http://semantic-ui.com/modules/search.html

Could you help in this ? I know it's out of this issue context but it's the same behavior in search, that's what got me here.

[NahuelKliphan]

Gracias kapo

[Jayashree-panda]

I am facing the same issue with react semantic ui. @duapraveen @kmd1970 Can you please help me with that.

[Shubhdeep12]

@Jayashree-panda if you are using semantic-ui react maybe this can help you Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-React#3932 (comment)