How to disable creating new tags with select2 v4.0?

Question

I\'ve been trying out the new Select2 v4.0 which has a lot of improvements. I\'m mainly interested in the tags feature. I want to be able to search for tags via

Answer 1

You can disable tags by removing tags: true when initializing Select2. Or alternatively, setting tags: false when initializing Select2. Tags are only enabled if the tags option is truthy, which it is when you are passing in true.

Answer 2

I am not sure if I should add the following in here but as I was searching for the same issue google pointed me to this question. However I use an older version 3.x and this is how to achieve the same scenario for the 3.x versions.

Tested on version 3.5

createSearchChoice: function(params) {
    return undefined;
}

Answer 3

I've been struggling with this as well, but got it working after a few hours.

I had specified a few token seperators (because my visitors are allowed to create tags in a different spot in the website). Turns out the seperators are still applied even if the tags configuration is set to false.

Solution: tags: false and do NOT add a value for tokenSeperators. Keep multiple: true.

Answer 4

This should work - in the initialization of select2, try returning undefined from the createTag function like so:

createTag: function(params) {
                return undefined;
           }