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A sidebar combo (dropdown+list) is like this:

<div class="issue-sidebar-combo" data-selection-mode="..." data-update-url="...">
  <input class="combo-value" name="..." type="hidden" value="...">
  <div class="ui dropdown">
    <div class="menu">
      <div class="item clear-selection">clear</div>
      <div class="item" data-value="..." data-scope="...">
        <span class="item-check-mark">...</span>
        ...
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="ui list">
    <span class="item empty-list">no item</span>
    <span class="item">...</span>
  </div>
</div>

When the selected items change, the combo-value input will be updated. If there is data-update-url, it also calls backend to attach/detach the changed items.

Also, the changed items will be synchronized to the ui list items. The menu items must have correct href, otherwise the links of synchronized (cloned) items would be wrong.

The ui list is optional, so a single dropdown can also work, to select items and update them to backend.

Synchronization logic:

• On page load:
  • If the dropdown menu contains checked items, there will be no synchronization. In this case, it's assumed that the dropdown menu is already in sync with the list.
  • If the dropdown menu doesn't contain checked items, it will use dropdown's value to mark the selected items as checked. And the selected (checked) items will be synchronized to the list. Dropdown's value should be empty if the there is no dropdown item but a pre-defined list item need to be displayed.
• On dropdown selection change:
  • The selected items will be synchronized to the list after the dropdown is hidden

The items with the same data-scope only allow one selected at a time.

The dropdown selection could work in 2 modes:

• single: only one item could be selected, it updates immediately when the item is selected.
• multiple: multiple items could be selected, it defers the update until the dropdown is hidden.

When using "scrolling menu", the items must be in the same level, otherwise keyboard (ArrowUp/ArrowDown/Enter) won't work.