simonwep/viselect

✨ Viselect - A high performance and lightweight library to add a visual way of selecting elements, just like on your Desktop. Zero dependencies, super small. Support for major frameworks!

TypeScript

2,956

549 commits

updated Sep 13, 2026

simonwep.github.io/viselect

See the code

README

Visual dom-selection library

Documentation / Quickstart / Examples

downloads gzip size brotli size

demo gif

Features 🤘

🧩 Framework-ready - a dependency-free core plus first-party React, Preact, and Vue 3 packages.
🖱️ Natural interactions - drag, click/tap, and Shift range selection.
🎯 Configurable behavior - selection triggers, thresholds, intersections, and overlap handling.
📱 Touch and scroll aware - works with touch input and two-axis scrollable containers.
🔄 Lifecycle events - observe or cancel interactions at every selection stage.
🛠️ Programmatic API - manage selections, refresh selectable elements, or enable/disable selection.
...and much more!

Getting started

Head over to the documentation to get started 🚀

You want to contribute?

That's awesome! Check out the contribution guidelines to get started :)

dom-selection

javascript-library

js-library

preact

react

select

selection

selections

ux-design

ux-experience

viselect

vue

Significant stargazers

Luke Karrys

718 followers · starred May 2018

Jakub T. Jankiewicz

615 followers · starred Nov 2022

OJ Kwon

600 followers · starred Nov 2024

_Kerman

543 followers · starred Dec 2023

Similar repos

daybrush/selecto

Selecto.js is a component that allows you to select elements in the drag area using the mouse or…

2,235

clauderic/dnd-kit

The modern toolkit for building drag and drop interfaces

17,707

sagalbot/vue-select

Everything you wish the HTML <select> element could do, wrapped up into a lightweight, extensible…

4,667

orchidjs/tom-select

Tom Select is a lightweight (~16kb gzipped) hybrid of a textbox and select box. Forked from…

2,234

TanStack/virtual

🤖 Headless UI for Virtualizing Large Element Lists in JS/TS, React, Solid, Vue and Svelte

7,139

PuruVJ/neodrag

One Draggable to rule them all 💍

2,453

atlassian/pragmatic-drag-and-drop

Fast drag and drop for any experience on any tech stack

12,782

Choices-js/Choices

A vanilla JS customisable select box/text input plugin ⚡️

6,826