Suggest Component should have an easy way to prevent an empty menu from showing.

[tnrich]

Hey @giladgray @adidahiya

In the above image I have a <Suggest/> with the prop

initialContent={null}

Instead of showing the weird little empty menu, I'd rather not show anything. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this besides implementing an entire itemListRenderer override. I think that passing initialContent={null} should completely hide the Menu.

To do that all that would seemingly need to change is here:

blueprint/packages/select/src/components/query-list/queryList.tsx

Line 264 in 3d6f13e

const createItemView = this.isCreateItemRendered() ? this.renderCreateItemMenuItem(this.state.query) : null;

If we added the this

if (menuContent === null && createItemView === null) {
  return null
}

to the next line then that weird empty menu wouldn't show up.

[zimeibian]

Hi, is this issue resolved? I'm still seeing the empty menu pop up on the Suggest component with initialContent=null on @blueprintjs/select 3.16.6 (https://codesandbox.io/s/blueprint-suggest-initialcontentnull-2sz9f?file=/src/index.tsx)

[pvcnt]

I am also hitting this. My workaround is to always display some initial content, but I would prefer having nothing shown (as with the Omnibar).