Customizable max length for options in st.multiselect

Open
#9,474 1 comment 4 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start at the st.multiselect entry point and trace where option strings are shortened. Define how a configurable maximum length should behave, then add coverage showing that long string options respect the chosen limit.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

feature:st.multiselect type:enhancement
Checklist
  • I have searched the existing issues for similar feature requests.
  • I added a descriptive title and summary to this issue.
Summary

I often end up with st.multiselect with string values shortened hence becoming "useless". Could we add a parameter that controls at which index we are shortening the strings? Or can we make this a bit smarter on the streamlit side?

image
Why?

No response

How?

No response

Additional Context

No response

Dominant language
Python
Stars
45.8k
Forks
4.4k
Avg merge
21h 22m
Merged PRs (30d)
316

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from streamlit/streamlit

All issues in streamlit/streamlit

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.