select2 - hiding the search box

Question

For my more significant selects, the search box in Select2 is wonderful. However, in one instance, I have a simple selection of 4 hard-coded choices. In this case, the search bo

Answer 1

If you have multi attribute in your select, this dirty hack works:

var multipleSelect = $('select[name="list_type"]');
multipleSelect.select2();
multipleSelect.parent().find('.select2-search--inline').remove();
multipleSelect.on('change', function(){
    multipleSelect.parent().find('.select2-search--inline').remove();
});

see docs here https://select2.org/searching#limiting-display-of-the-search-box-to-large-result-sets