[jquery] select2 - hiding the search box

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 box is superfluous and looks a little silly being present. Is it possible to hide it somehow? I took a look through the documentation online and couldn't find any options for this in the constructor.

I could, of course, just use a regular HTML select, but for consistency, I'd like to use Select2 if possible.

@Misha Kobrin's answer work well for me So I have decided to explain it more

You want to hide the search box you can do it by jQuery.

for example you have initialized select2 plugin on a drop down having id audience

element_select = '#audience';// id or class
$(element_select).select2("close").parent().hide();

The example works on all devices on which select2 works.

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; }

I edited the select2.min.js file to set the select-2__search input field that's generated to readonly="true".

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

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

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

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();
  }

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

try this CSS

input[aria-controls=select2-product-type-results]{
  display: none;
}

this input is search field

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() {_x000D_
  $(".select2").select2();_x000D_
});

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/css/select2.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.3/js/select2.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<label>without search box</label>_x000D_
<select class="select2" data-width="100%" data-minimum-results-for-search="Infinity">_x000D_
  <option>one</option>_x000D_
  <option>two</option>_x000D_
</select>_x000D_
_x000D_
<label>with search box</label>_x000D_
<select class="select2" data-width="100%">_x000D_
  <option>one</option>_x000D_
  <option>two</option>_x000D_
</select>

You can try this

$('#select_id').select2({ minimumResultsForSearch: -1 });

it closes the search results box and then set control unvisible

You can check here in select2 document select2 documents

//Disable a search on particular selector
$(".my_selector").select2({
    placeholder: "ÁREAS(todas)",
    tags: true,
    width:'100%',
    containerCssClass: "area_disable_search_input" // I add new class 
});

//readonly prop to selector class
$(".area_disable_search_input input").prop("readonly", true);

I like to do this dynamically depending on the number of options in the select; to hide the search for selects with 10 or fewer results, I do:

$fewResults = $("select>option:nth-child(11)").closest("select");
$fewResults.select2();
$('select').not($fewResults).select2({ minimumResultsForSearch : -1 });

If you want to hide search for a specific drop down use the id attribute for that.

$('#select_id').select2({ minimumResultsForSearch: -1 });

If the select is show results one have to use this:

$('#yourSelect2ControlId').select2("close").parent().hide();

it closes the search results box and then set control unvisible

.no-search .select2-search {
    display:none
}

$("#test").select2({
    dropdownCssClass : 'no-search'
}); 

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

Removing the inputs with jQuery works for me:

$(".select2-search, .select2-focusser").remove();