The documentation for the Kendo UI MultiSelect widget states that the user can highlight the next/previous item using RIGHT/LEFT when the selection popup is closed. This works as expected. However, if the user then presses TAB and moves the focus somewhere else, the item remains highlighted.

Since the highlight only indicates that certain actions can be executed on the item, it should be removed in such a case as the actions are no longer executable. This can easily be reproduced with the keyboard navigation sample:

• Select a few items
• press LEFT
• press TAB

Bug report

Reproduction of the problem

Dojo example.

1. Type in "f" in the MultiSelect's input area. It is filtered and shows 2 items in the list.
2. Press "Ctrl + A" keys. The two items are selected.
3. Clear the text in the input. The list is populated with all items in the dataSource.
4. Press "Ctrl + A" keys again

Current behavior

All items are selected, but the first two ("Chai and Chang") are not highlighted as selected.

Expected/desired behavior

All items should be selected and highlighted as selected.

Environment

• **Kendo UI version: 2020.3.1118
• jQuery version: x.y
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

An error occurs when filtering the MultiSelect with grouping enabled.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open this Dojo example - https://dojo.telerik.com/IJErEZiD
2. Open the MultiSelect and scroll down a bit.
3. Type "w" so that the No Data Template would appear.

Current behavior

An error occurs on the browser console.

Expected/desired behavior

No errors should occur when filtering the component.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2022.3.913
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

MultiSelect with virtualization scrolls automatically to the first item in the dropdown after selecting items.

Note: the issue is reproduced inconsistently.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo example - https://dojo.telerik.com/oSuTUhiQ/4.
2. Scroll to e.g item 10296.
3. Start selecting all the items down.

Current behavior

At some point, the component will scroll to the top of the dropdown.

Expected/desired behavior

The component should not scroll to the top, the focus should stay on the currently selected item.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2020.2.513
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

MultiSelect with virtualization and tagMode: single deselects items when too many items are selected.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Download and unzip the attached project.
2. Run the project.
3. Start selecting items from the first item on.

For convenience, attached is a small video demonstrating the behavior.

Note: So far I was unable to reproduce the issue in a Dojo example when trying to replicate the configuration from the project.

Current behavior

At some point, the dropdown popup will scroll up, and some items that have been selected, will be deselected. Also, the single tag for the selected items will disappear.

Expected/desired behavior

The component should not be deselecting items, should not scroll up and the tag should not disappear.

Attachments:
Project - MultiSelectIssue.zip
Video - Kendosln_Issue.zip

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2020.1.406
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

When an empty array is passed to the MultiSelect's value method inside the deselect event, the item that is deselected remains selected in the MultiSelect.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open this Dojo and run it
2. Expand MultiSelect's popup list and click on "All" item.

Current behavior

The different MultiSelect items are deselected except for the "All" item.

*If the "if" statement is removed from the deselect event function in the Dojo, and only the 'e.sender.value([]);' is kept, the issue is reproducing no matter of the selected item in MultiSelect's popup.

Expected/desired behavior

Calling 'e.sender.value([]);' should remove all items selected in the MultiSelect.
Click on the "Clear values" button to see the expected behavior.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 201x.r.ddd
• jQuery version: x.y
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

Reproduction of the problem

Reproducible in the demos on mobile devices or in Chrome's emulator.
Screencast.

1. Tap over the MultiSelect input area and drag to scroll the page.

Current behavior

The dropdown opens and a js exception is thrown:

"Ignored attempt to cancel a touchend event with cancelable=false, for example because scrolling is in progress and cannot be interrupted."

Expected/desired behavior

The dropdown does not open (similarly to the way the DropDownList behaves in the same scenario).

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2019.2.514
• jQuery version: x.y
• Browser: [Mobile Chrome XX ]

Hello!

Firstly, in the keyboard navigation demo for the MultiSelect widget (https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/multiselect/keyboard-navigation) the follwing two keyboard shortcuts are documented:

• SHIFT + UP-ARROW: select previous item
• SHIFT + DOWN-ARROW: select next item

In the following scenario, these shortcuts cause some strange behaviour:

• select two consecutive items with SHIFT+DOWN-ARROW (e.g. "Small" and "Medium")
• use the arrow keys to move the focus further down (e.g. to "X-Large")
• press SHIFT+DOWN-ARROW again

I would expect "X-Large" and "2X-Large" to be selected in addition to the already selected items "Small" and "Medium". Instead, "Large" is selected as well. Is this behaviour intended?

Secondly, every time the user clicks and selects an entry of the MultiSelect popup, the popup is closed. Is there a way to prevent that closing. Or is there a way of selecting without triggering a close event (like pressing CTRL etc.)?

Thank You!

Bug report

Currently, the MultiSelect input does not have a placeholder attribute in its rendering. This leads to inconsistency with the other input components such as AutoComplete and ComboBox.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo example and inspect the rendering of the two components.

Current behavior

Currently, the MultiSelect 'input.k-input-inner' element does not have a placeholder attribute. As a consequence, the color of the placeholder is slightly different than the rest of the input widgets.

Expected/desired behavior

The MultiSelect widgets should have a placeholder attribute in order to be consistent with the rest of the widgets such as AutoComplete and ComboBox

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2022.2.510
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

The MultiSelect is flickering several times when filtering and then selecting an item in Desktop mode on Safari.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Virtualization demo in desktop mode in Safari on a touch device.
2. Filter the MultiSelect and select an item from the bottom of the filtered list.

Current behavior

The selected item flickers several times. (the selected item disappears and re-appears several times)

Expected/desired behavior

The selected item should not be flickering.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2020.3.1118
• Browser: [iOS Safari ]

Bug report

In MultiSelect when the value is set initially and the mapValueTo option is set to 'dataItem', if the user first open and close the popup, the last item can not be removed and an error 'c.select(...).done is not a function' is thrown.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo example. - https://dojo.telerik.com/@NeliKondova/UCesAQen
2. Open the popup and scroll to the "Hungry Owl All-Night Grocers" item
3. Close the popup
4. Try to remove the "Hungry Owl All-Night Grocers" from the input

As the Dojo above does not use a remote valueMapper below is a sample project where a remote valueMapper method is implemented
WebApplication3.zip

Current behavior

The last item can not be removed and an error 'c.select(...).done is not a function' is thrown in the browser`s console.
The other items except the last one can be removed as expected. Also, all items can be removed initially in case the popup has not been opened and scrolled to the last item from the value.

Expected/desired behavior

It should be possible to remove all items displayed in the MultiSelect input, even in a scenario where the popup has been opened and closed.

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2023.2.606
• Browser: [all ]

Bug report

When the MultiSelect is used inside the Grid as a custom editor, the component gets closed on focus or when the user tries to select a second item.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open the Dojo - https://dojo.telerik.com/oCPdsViX.
2. Click the 'Edit' button and try to select two items in the third column 'Dont work'.

Current behavior

The first item is correctly selected, however, the pop-up is closed every time the user clicks in the input, thus it is not possible to select a second item.

Expected/desired behavior

The popup should not close on focus the MultiSelect input and it should be possible to select multiple items.

The issue is a regression starting with 2025.2.520

Workaround

The MultiSelect is not closed when the downArrow is enabled (column 'Works')

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2025.2.520
• Browser: [all ]

Hi Team,

I would like to request a way to be able to select all child items in a group.  

Thank you!

Hi Team,

I would like to request a way to display the placeholder when the user has focused on the Input with no value made.  

Thank you!

Bug report

When the MultiSelect is created from a predefined HTML, the dataTextField and dataValueField options default to "text" and "value" instead of empty string.

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open this Dojo example - https://dojo.telerik.com/inUYekiL/10
2. Check the MultiSelect options in the browser console.

Current behavior

The dataTextField and dataValueField options default to text and value

Expected/desired behavior

The dataTextField and dataValueField's default values should be empty strings

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2024.3.806
• Browser: [all]

Bug report

Setting the delay option of the MultiSelect doesn't have an effect.

Regression introduced with 2024.1.130

Reproduction of the problem

1. Open this Dojo example - https://dojo.telerik.com/oyaHULOv/4
2. Type some text to filter the data

Current behavior

The 1 second delay is not respected and the data is filtered instantly

Expected/desired behavior

There should be 1 second delay before the data is filtered

Environment

• Kendo UI version: 2024.1.319
• Browser: [all]

The multiSelect supports several keyboard shortcuts as documented in https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/multiselect/keyboard-navigation. However, when e.g. a KeyDown event is triggered (and handled) by the widget, its propagation is not stopped. This behavior can be witnessed in this DOJO.

In our case, we e.g. use multiSelects inside dialog windows that can be closed via ESC. When pressing ESC while a multiSelect is focused and open, this not only closes the multiSelect (as expected), but also closes the dialog.

The multiSelect should stop the propagation of events that it handled.

When using the Multiselect with Javascript Api in following order:

- Disable

- Select

- Enable

The Multiselect Control is enabled, but the Items are still disabled and therefore cannot be removed by the X.

Can be reproduced in the official demo (see Screenshot): https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/multiselect/api