A Material-UI component for inputting multiple values as chips, with autocomplete and customization options.
Material-UI Chip Input is a React component that provides a chip input field for Material-UI, enabling users to input multiple values as interactive chips. It solves the need for a user-friendly way to handle tags, labels, or multiple selections in forms, with features like autocomplete and customization. The component is designed to integrate seamlessly with Material-UI's design system and form controls.
Frontend developers building React applications with Material-UI who need a chip input component for handling multiple values, such as tags, labels, or selections in forms.
Developers choose this component for its Material Design compliance, flexibility in controlled/uncontrolled modes, and extensive customization options like autocomplete and chip rendering. It offers a reliable alternative to building a chip input from scratch, with good integration into Material-UI ecosystems.
A chip input field using Material-UI.
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Seamlessly integrates with Material-UI's design system, providing a chip input that follows Google's Material Design specifications for chips behavior, as outlined in the README's inspiration and features.
Supports both controlled and uncontrolled input modes, giving developers full control over chip state, with clear examples in the usage section for handling adds and deletes.
Includes built-in autocomplete via the dataSource prop, making it easy to implement suggestion-based inputs without additional libraries, as detailed in the properties table.
Allows deep customization through the chipRenderer function and CSS API, enabling tailored chip styling and behavior, which is a key feature highlighted in the README.
The README explicitly states that it does not support MUI v4 or v5, making it obsolete for modern projects and forcing developers to use legacy versions or seek alternatives.
The chipRenderer function has a verbose signature with many parameters (e.g., value, text, chip, isFocused), which can be overwhelming and error-prone for simple customizations.
As a third-party component for an older MUI version, it may not integrate smoothly with newer tools or libraries, and maintenance has likely stalled, as hinted in the README.