Vue.js vue-select Example to Display the Selected Value From the Dropdown Input Field in Browser

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be using the vue-select library to display the selected value from the dropdown input field in browser using javascript. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make an index.html file and copy paste the following code

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Vue-Select Example in Browser</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue-select/3.10.0/vue-select.css">
<body>
  
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue-select/3.10.0/vue-select.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Vue-Select Example in Browser</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

As you can see we are including the cdn of the vue.js and the vue-select library and now we need to write the html code which will include the select field as shown below

<div id="app">
        <label>Select a fruit:</label>
        <v-select v-model="selectedFruit" :options="fruits"></v-select>
        <p>You selected: {{ selectedFruit.value }}</p>
    </div>

<label>Select a fruit:</label>

<v-select v-model="selectedFruit" :options="fruits"></v-select>

<p>You selected: {{ selectedFruit.value }}</p>

</div>

As you can see we are having the div section where we have the v-select directive and inside it we are passing the v-model directive to pass the data that we will be selecting and also the options as well. And then below that we are printing out the selected value inside the {{}} brackets.

Adding the Vue.js Code

<script>
        Vue.component('v-select', VueSelect.VueSelect);

        new Vue({
            el: '#app',
            data: {
                selectedFruit: 'Apple',
                fruits: [
                    { label: 'Apple', value: 'apple' },
                    { label: 'Banana', value: 'banana' },
                    { label: 'Cherry', value: 'cherry' },
                    { label: 'Grape', value: 'grape' },
                    { label: 'Orange', value: 'orange' },
                    { label: 'Peach', value: 'peach' },
                    { label: 'Pear', value: 'pear' },
                    { label: 'Pineapple', value: 'pineapple' },
                    { label: 'Strawberry', value: 'strawberry' },
                    { label: 'Watermelon', value: 'watermelon' }
                ]
            }
        });
    </script>

Vue.component('v-select', VueSelect.VueSelect);

new Vue({

el: '#app',

data: {

selectedFruit: 'Apple',

fruits: [

{ label: 'Apple', value: 'apple' },

{ label: 'Banana', value: 'banana' },

{ label: 'Cherry', value: 'cherry' },

{ label: 'Grape', value: 'grape' },

{ label: 'Orange', value: 'orange' },

{ label: 'Peach', value: 'peach' },

{ label: 'Pear', value: 'pear' },

{ label: 'Pineapple', value: 'pineapple' },

{ label: 'Strawberry', value: 'strawberry' },

{ label: 'Watermelon', value: 'watermelon' }

]

}

});

</script>

As you can see in the above code we are initializing the vue.js app we are passing the data to the select input field and each option is an object where we have two options which is the label and the value.