trying to understand how callbackOnCreateTemplates works

[frumbert]

I am new to choicesjs and just trying it out, late at night, and I am probably missing something obvious.

I just want to modify the choice so that it shows extra custom property values after the label (e.g. item code, description, etc, with a bit of html formatting).

i tried copy-pasting the "more complex" example from the readme into my code and it throws the error template is not defined or similar - i don't know what 'template' refers to in the example code.

The first example under callbackOnCreateTemplates is similarly confusing, as the description mentions 'If you want just extend a little original template then you may use Choices.defaults.templates to get access to original template function' and then fails to describe how. Copy-pasting that also throws an error.

I checked stackoverflow and asked chatgpt for examples, but the responses seem to be for a totally different version as they aren't remotely like the example code in the readme.

[Xon]

callbackOnCreateTemplates is a function which returns an list of name/functions pairs for creating various templates. Choices.defaults.templates is just the default implementation which can be easily invoked and then you can modify the returned HTML

I'ld recommend posting a jsfiddle version of what you are trying.