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

It's on their Examples page: https://select2.org/searching#hiding-the-search-box

$(".js-example-basic-hide-search").select2({
  minimumResultsForSearch: Infinity
});

Answer 2

If you want to hide on initial opening and you are populating the dropdown via ajax call, add the following to the ajax block in your select2 declaration:

beforeSend: function () 
  {
    $('.select2-search--dropdown').addClass('hidden');
  }

To then show it again (and focus) after your ajax request is successful:

  success: function() {
      $('.select2-search--dropdown').removeClass('select2-search--hide'); // show search bar then focus
      $('.select2-search__field')[0].focus();
  }

Answer 3

This is the best solution, clean and work good :

$("#select2Id").select2 () ;
$("#select2Id").select2 ('container').find ('.select2-search').addClass ('hidden') ;

Then, create a class .hidden { display;none; }

Answer 4

//readonly on all select2 input
$(".select2-search input").prop("readonly", true);

Answer 5

For multiselect you have to write js code, there is no settings property.

$('#js-example-basic-hide-search-multi').select2();

$('#js-example-basic-hide-search-multi').on('select2:opening select2:closing', function( event ) {
    var $searchfield = $(this).parent().find('.select2-search__field');
    $searchfield.prop('disabled', true);
});

This mentioned on their page: https://select2.org/searching#multi-select

Answer 6

Version 4.0.3

Try not to mix user interface requirements with your JavaScript code.

You can hide the search box in the markup with the attribute:

data-minimum-results-for-search="Infinity"

Markup

<select class="select2" data-minimum-results-for-search="Infinity"></select>

Example

$(document).ready(function() {
  $(".select2").select2();
});

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/js/select2.min.js"></script>

<label>without search box</label>
<select class="select2" data-width="100%" data-minimum-results-for-search="Infinity">
  <option>one</option>
  <option>two</option>
</select>

<label>with search box</label>
<select class="select2" data-width="100%">
  <option>one</option>
  <option>two</option>
</select>