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Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.

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Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 120
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Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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120 open issues indexed

FEATURE REQUEST: take title attribute from original select (when you don't use one against an option) Open

4.x enhancement feature: selections

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6238 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 23, 2023
HTML5 inputmode attribute on mobile devices Open

4.x enhancement feature: search

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6224 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2023
select2:select i had problems with my templateSelection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

select2/select2#6221 · Opened Feb 7, 2023
Unable to select - greyed items Open

4.x status: needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6215 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2023
Events lack some init/ready one. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6209 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 16, 2022
Add examples to the documentation for adapters and decorators Open

4.x documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

select2/select2#6208 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 16, 2022
data-select2-id attribute is disabling scroll of parent div elements Open

4.x status: needs information

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6199 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 18, 2022
Feature Request: Removal of jQuery as Dependency Open

4.x enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#6196 · 28 comments · 53 reactions · Opened Oct 12, 2022
select2-4.1.0-rc.0 - dropdown option being selected on hover? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6193 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2022
dropdown inside datatable is not rendered correctly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6191 · Opened Sep 20, 2022
Css little bugs and posible solution Open

4.x confirmed bug styling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6189 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2022
django autocomplete: text search field not focused with ajax source. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

select2/select2#6188 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2022
Select2 automatically selects a value Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

select2/select2#6187 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2022
Select2 and bootstrap modal Open

status: needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#6184 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2022
Feature Request: Typed Tag On Close Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

select2/select2#6177 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 19, 2022
For problematic ajax sources, Select2 cannot unselect options, no errors given in the console. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6173 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2022
.select2-hidden-accessible causes whitespace issue inside scrollable div Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

select2/select2#6168 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2022
Add option to show the count of selected items, not items themselves inside input [suggestion] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6163 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened May 23, 2022
Nvda screenreader is not announcing any status message after performing a search operation on environment and dynamics 365 combo box search control. Open

4.x accessibility status: needs information

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6161 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2022
Multiple shadow DOM trees with same select2 ids not working correctly Open

4.x status: needs information status: possible bug (unconfirmed)

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6158 · 3 comments · Opened May 8, 2022
Decorators not applied when using custom dataAdapter Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

select2/select2#6155 · Opened May 3, 2022
When navigating backward on Google Chrome, Select2 displays initialized value as select2-selection__rendered instead of selected Open

4.x status: possible bug (unconfirmed)

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#6154 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2022
Select2 triggering event don’t loading additional data Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#6149 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 14, 2022
Using Select2 with npm / webpack resolves in JS Error "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getAttribute') at Object.Utils.GetUniqueElementId" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6146 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 25, 2022
New clear selection button is styled as a button by Chrome and looks terrible Open

4.x confirmed bug styling

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6142 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 8, 2022
Laravel-Livewire : Dropdown is not in proper select Id and sometimes it's not clickable when there's data selected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#6137 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 10, 2022
Screen reader should announce dropdown label , when focus on dropdown Open

4.x accessibility

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6134 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 29, 2021
Bug: unselect an item doesn't change the state.selected in function templateResult(state) Open

4.x confirmed bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6129 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2021
Ajax is requested when clear button is pressed and dropdown has been kept closed Open

4.x feature: ajax status: possible bug (unconfirmed) status: stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#6116 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2021
Tags and Ajax seems to be not working properly when "text" comes concatenated with "id" Open

status: stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#6091 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2021
Add support to <option hidden> Open

4.x enhancement status: stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6085 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 1, 2021
When selectOnClose=true, selected item changed on mouse enter Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

select2/select2#6084 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 31, 2021
[BUG] `Uncaught TypeError: $(...).select2 is not a function` with `4.1.0-rc.0 ` Open

4.x compatibility status: possible bug (unconfirmed)

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6081 · 23 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 18, 2021
No "originalEvent" in "close" event. Open

4.x enhancement feature: dropdown status: stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#6078 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2021
Select2 option leaves thin blue lines when not focused Open

4.x browser: Safari mobile: iOS status: possible bug (unconfirmed) status: stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6072 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2021
Cannot change a specific string after localization Open

4.x feature: translation/i18n support: usage question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6059 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2021
BUG: Combining tags:true with ajax does not work. Open

4.x feature: ajax feature: tagging status: possible bug (unconfirmed) status: stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#6027 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2021
Unnecessary focus Open

4.x status: possible bug (unconfirmed)

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

select2/select2#6025 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2021
VO Button + Space doesn't work on Safari with select2 Open

4.x accessibility browser: Safari

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6021 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2021
Select 2 Screen reader Ajax Issue Open

4.x accessibility status: needs information

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#6007 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2021
Compatibility issues with latest jQuery 3.5.1 Open

4.x compatibility confirmed bug feature: search

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#5996 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 5, 2021
select with lang="en" ignores language overrides Open

4.x documentation feature: translation/i18n good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

select2/select2#5995 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2021
In multi select , the label given to multi select is not read by the screen reader. Open

4.x accessibility

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#5982 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2021
In a multi-select cannot click 'x' icon on an item to remove it if the focus is outside the select Open

4.x feature: multi-select feature: selections status: possible bug (unconfirmed)

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

select2/select2#5977 · 13 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2021
data-select2-id in all over places Open

4.x

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#5921 · 11 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Sep 15, 2020
Unable to open Select2 combobox on iOS devices when using Voiceover touch screen gestures with Safari Open

4.x accessibility feature: ajax feature: dropdown

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

select2/select2#5904 · Opened Jul 31, 2020
Select2 Accessibility Tweaks Open

4.x accessibility

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

select2/select2#5864 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 22, 2020
Dynamic option creation does not play well with Chinese IME Open

4.x confirmed bug feature: search feature: tagging feature: translation/i18n help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

select2/select2#5837 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 22, 2020
Dropdown misaligned when dropdownParent has a border Open

4.x confirmed bug feature: dropdown

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

select2/select2#5833 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 19, 2020
Shadow DOM Issue: Selection Dropdown Hangs Open When Clicked Elsewhere On Page Open

4.x confirmed bug feature: dropdown help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

select2/select2#5781 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 25, 2020

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