freesewing/sites/dev/docs/reference/packages/react/hooks/useselection

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title: useSelection
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The **useSelection** hook facilitates letting the user select one or more items
from a list or array. You need to pass this list/array to the hook.

## Example

```js
import { useSelection } from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useFilter'

const MyComponent = ({ items = [] }) => {
  const {
    count,
    selection,
    setSelection,
    toggle,
    toggleAll,
  } = useSelection(items)

  // ...
}
```

## Return value

Calling the hook returns an object with the following properties:

- [count](#count)
- [selection](#selection)
- [setSelection](#setselection)
- [toggle](#toggle)
- [toggleAll](#toggleAll)

### count

This holds the number of items currently selected.

### selection

This holds an object of selected items where the key is the index and the value the item itself.
Call `selection.values()` to get an array.

### setSelection

This is a method that sets the selection manually, typically not used.

# toggle

This is a method that takes an index and toggles the selection for that item.

# toggleAll

This is a method will select all items, unless all items are currently
selected. In that case, it will select zero items.

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