ng-select/ng-select

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3372 stars · 925 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ng-select is a lightweight, all-in-one native Angular select component providing dropdown, multiselect, and autocomplete functionality. It supports virtual scrolling for large datasets, custom templates, keyboard navigation, and client/server-side filtering.

Use cases

• add a searchable dropdown select to an Angular form
• implement multiselect with tags in Angular
• autocomplete input backed by server-side search in Angular
• render a select with thousands of options using virtual scroll
• customize option and label templates in an Angular dropdown
• replace native HTML select with a keyboard-accessible Angular component

When to choose

• you are building an Angular application and need a feature-rich select, multiselect, or autocomplete control
• you need to handle large option lists efficiently with virtual or infinite scroll
• you want custom templates, tags, and flexible client or server filtering out of the box

When to avoid

• you are using React, Vue, or another non-Angular framework
• you need a simple native select with no custom behavior and want zero dependencies
• your Angular version is not covered by the compatibility table or falls on a known-broken release

Facets

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ui-components form-handling frontend web-development browser cross-platform angular select dropdown autocomplete multiselect typeahead virtual-scroll typescript

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