<CheckboxGroupInput>

If you want to let the user choose multiple values among a list of possible values by showing them all, <CheckboxGroupInput> is the right component.

This input allows editing values that are arrays of scalar values, e.g. [123, 456].

Tip: React-admin includes other components allowing the edition of such values:

• <SelectArrayInput> renders a dropdown list of choices
• <AutocompleteArrayInput> renders an autocomplete input of choices
• <DualListInput> renders a list of choices that can be moved from one list to another

And if you are looking for a way to edit a list of embedded objects (e.g. [{ id: 123, title: 'Hello' }, { id: 456, title: 'World' }]), check the <ArrayInput> component.

Usage

In addition to the source, <CheckboxGroupInput> requires one prop: the choices listing the possible values.

import { CheckboxGroupInput } from 'react-admin';

<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={[
    { id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
]} />

By default, the possible choices are built from the choices prop, using:

• the id field as the option value,
• the name field as the option text

The form value for the source must be an array of the selected values, e.g.

{
    id: 123,
    name: 'John Doe',
    roles: ['u001', 'u003'],
}

Props

<CheckboxGroupInput> also accepts the common input props.

choices

The list of choices must be an array of objects - one object for each possible choice. In each object, id is the value, and the name is the label displayed to the user.

<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={[
    { id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
]} />

You can also use an array of objects with different properties for the label and value, given you specify the optionText and optionValue props:

<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={[
    { _id: 'admin', label: 'Admin' },
    { _id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
]} optionValue="_id" optionText="label" />

The choices are translated by default, so you can use translation identifiers as choices:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', label: 'myroot.roles.admin' },
    { id: 'u001', label: 'myroot.roles.u001' },
    { id: 'u002', label: 'myroot.roles.u002' },
    { id: 'u003', label: 'myroot.roles.u003' },
];

You can opt-out of this translation by setting the translateChoice prop to false.

If you need to fetch the options from another resource, you’re actually editing a one-to-many or a many-to-many relationship. In this case, wrap the <CheckboxGroupInput> in a <ReferenceArrayInput> or a <ReferenceManyToManyInput> component. You don’t need to specify the choices prop - the parent component injects it based on the possible values of the related resource.

<ReferenceArrayInput source="tag_ids" reference="tags">
    <CheckboxGroupInput />
</ReferenceArrayInput>

If you have an array of values for the options, turn it into an array of objects with the id and name properties:

const possibleValues = ['programming', 'lifestyle', 'photography'];
const ucfirst = name => name.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + name.slice(1);
const choices = possibleValues.map(value => ({ id: value, name: ucfirst(value) }));

<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={choices} />

labelPlacement

By default, this inputs renders a checkbox and a label for each choice, with the label on the right of the checkbox. You can change this behavior with the labelPlacement prop:

<CheckboxGroupInput source="options" choices={choices} labelPlacement="bottom" />

options

Use the options attribute if you want to override any of Material UI’s Material UI Checkbox documentation attributes:

import { FavoriteBorder, Favorite } from '@mui/icons-material';

<CheckboxGroupInput source="options" options={{
    icon: <FavoriteBorder />,
    checkedIcon: <Favorite />
}} />

optionText

You can customize the properties to use for the option name (instead of the default name) thanks to the optionText prop:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', label: 'Admin' },
    { id: 'u001', label: 'Editor' },
    { id: 'u002', label: 'Moderator' },
    { id: 'u003', label: 'Reviewer' },
];
<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={choices} optionText="label" />

optionText is especially useful when the choices are records coming from a <ReferenceArrayInput> or a <ReferenceManyToManyInput>. By default, react-admin uses the recordRepresentation function to display the record label. But if you set the optionText prop, react-admin will use it instead.

<ReferenceArrayInput source="tag_ids" reference="tags">
    <CheckboxGroupInput optionText="tag" />
</ReferenceArrayInput>

optionText also accepts a function, so you can shape the option text based on the entire choice object:

const choices = [
   { id: 123, first_name: 'Leo', last_name: 'Tolstoi' },
   { id: 456, first_name: 'Jane', last_name: 'Austen' },
];
const optionRenderer = choice => `${choice.first_name} ${choice.last_name}`;

<CheckboxGroupInput source="authors" choices={choices} optionText={optionRenderer} />

optionText also accepts a React Element, that will be rendered inside a <RecordContext> using the related choice as the record prop. You can use Field components there.

const choices = [
   { id: 123, first_name: 'Leo', last_name: 'Tolstoi' },
   { id: 456, first_name: 'Jane', last_name: 'Austen' },
];

const FullNameField = () => {
    const record = useRecordContext();
    return <span>{record.first_name} {record.last_name}</span>;
}

<CheckboxGroupInput source="authors" choices={choices} optionText={<FullNameField />}/>

optionValue

You can customize the properties to use for the option value (instead of the default id) thanks to the optionValue prop:

const choices = [
    { _id: 'admin', name: 'Admin' },
    { _id: 'u001', name: 'Editor' },
    { _id: 'u002', name: 'Moderator' },
    { _id: 'u003', name: 'Reviewer' },
];
<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={choices} optionValue="_id" />

row

By default, the checkboxes are displayed in a row. You can change that and let react-admin render one choice per row by setting the row prop to false:

<CheckboxGroupInput source="options" choices={choices} row={false} />

sx: CSS API

The <CheckboxGroupInput> component accepts the usual className prop. You can also override many styles of the inner components thanks to the sx property (see the sx documentation for syntax and examples). This property accepts the following subclasses:

To override the style of all instances of <CheckboxGroupInput> using the application-wide style overrides, use the RaCheckboxGroupInput key.

translateChoice

The choices are translated by default, so you can use translation identifiers as choices:

const choices = [
    { id: 'admin', name: 'myroot.roles.admin' },
    { id: 'u001', name: 'myroot.roles.u001' },
    { id: 'u002', name: 'myroot.roles.u002' },
    { id: 'u003', name: 'myroot.roles.u003' },
];

However, in some cases (e.g. inside a <ReferenceArrayInput>), you may not want the choice to be translated. In that case, set the translateChoice prop to false.

<CheckboxGroupInput source="roles" choices={choices} translateChoice={false}/>

Fetching Choices

If you want to populate the choices attribute with a list of related records, you should decorate <CheckboxGroupInput> with <ReferenceArrayInput>, and leave the choices empty:

import { AutocompleteArrayInput, ReferenceArrayInput } from 'react-admin';

<ReferenceArrayInput label="Tags" reference="tags" source="tags">
    <CheckboxGroupInput />
</ReferenceArrayInput>

Check the <ReferenceArrayInput> documentation for more details.