Optgroup support

[jeffubelhor]

I would love to see some support for in the drop down list. Maybe this already exists and I don't know how to use them, but I've been having trouble getting it working.

[danielfarrell]

It does not exist at the moment. How do you envision it working? And what is a good use case for using optgroup? I'll admit to never seeing the point of them.

[jeffubelhor]

I'm looking into methods of implementing it now. And I think they're incredibly useful. I've used them in the past for filtering though dropdown lists by categories and by using them to section the elements into easy groups with a title in the dropdown list.

[danielfarrell]

How do you invision that working in the context of an autocompletor?

[jeffubelhor]

I'm not absolutely positive right now, at least for me I would be using it just as a section identifier and not as something to filter by, but that's just in my own personal case right now.

[danielfarrell]

Gotchya. The only thought I had in that manner was something like so:

Group Name – Item Name
Group Name – Second Item

And then on selection you just get the second part. That would let you type the group name and see everything in it.

[jeffubelhor]

For me, I've more used optgroups as only a header like:

optgroup

• option
• option

optgroup

• option
• option

Where the optgroup is not selectable or searchable, but is just a header for the categories.

[thephw]

This is pretty easy to stylistically change with the new version of bootstrap. However I'm not sure that it is going to happen until we drop 2.X support.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_optgroup.asp

[thephw]

Given the relative simplicity of this feature going to add it to the to do list for the 2.0 release.

[themartianmw]

Hi @thephw I want to use the bootstrap-combobox in my project, but I really need the optgroup feature. Can you give me a hint of how could I edit the code to achieve it? Thanks in advance.

[tiesont]

@themartianmw By "optgroup feature", what are you looking for?