How to hide multiselect chips

Hey everyone, I’m running into a display issue with the Multiselect component and could use some help.

Current situation: When I select items in the Multiselect component, they appear as “chips” even when the dropdown is closed - showing as gray rectangles with white text and “×” icons for each selected item.

What I’m trying to achieve:

  • I only want to display the COUNT of selected items (e.g., “Markets: 3”). I already have a variable working perfectly for counting how many items are selected.

  • I do NOT want the names of selected items to be visible as chips when closed or opened.

The core problem: The WeWeb Multiselect component displays selected items as chips by default when closed, and there doesn’t seem to be a simple setting to disable this behavior.

In summary: I want to show a counter display (“Markets: 5”) instead of the detailed chip list, so the interface stays cleaner and more compact.

Has anyone found a workaround for this?

Hey Balint :waving_hand:

I tried recreating your problem and indeed there isn’t an easy way to remove the chips functionality from our multi select element.

You could try to create a custom select element with the help of AI and see if that works.

There used to be a count option in the old version of the multi select, but for some reason there’s none in the new one, i have tried to fix this or find an alternative for a while but i couldn’t, i did find some alternative, created custom element with & without AI, but it was never great. if you find a great solution, please share with us !

I didn’t find any solution so I implemented another solution.