React MultiSelect Dropdown for Forms: Search and Select with Tags

Overview

The MultiSelect Dropdown lets users type to filter and select multiple values, displaying choices as removable tags or with checkboxes. It supports simple arrays and remote endpoints, templates for items and values, grouping, and accessibility features.

React MultiSelect code example

Starter TSX showing a MultiSelect Dropdown bound to a small array.

import { MultiSelect } from '@syncfusion/react-dropdowns';

export const permissions: string[] = ['Read','Write','Delete','Update','Create','Download','Upload','Execute','Share','Archive','Restore','Approve','Reject','View','Manage Users','Configure Settings','Audit','Export','Import','Publish'];

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="component-section">
      <MultiSelect dataSource={permissions} placeholder="Grant permissions (e.g. Read)" />
    </div>
  );
}

Controlled mode

The MultiSelect Dropdown supports controlled and uncontrolled usage. Controlled mode gives external control of selected values (for example via value and change handlers) for form integration. Uncontrolled mode manages selection internally and is simpler for basic scenarios.

• Controlled vs uncontrolled demo

High performance

When virtualization is enabled, the control renders only visible items and uses on-demand loading to fetch additional items as users type or scroll, keeping performance smooth with very large datasets.

• Virtualization demo

Flexible data binding

Bind the MultiSelect Dropdown to simple arrays, JSON collections, or remote endpoints. Server-side filtering and pagination keep payloads small while returning matching results for fast suggestion updates.

• Remote data binding demo