Autocomplete Bootstrap navigation search field about select2 HOT 4 CLOSED

the usecase for select2 is to "select" something and work with that selection.

i think what you are looking for is more of a type-ahead kind of functionality which i believe is better covered by existing plugins.

for example, bootstrap provides an implementation of such a field here: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#typeahead

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Thanks for the response, ivaynberg. The use case I am looking for is to search for and select one item, essentially functionally identical to the AJAX example I linked to (albeit with a different dataset). Sorry for not being clear in my post.

On reflection the issue may simply be aesthetics i.e. can the select2 box be changed to appear aesthetically compatible with the Bootstrap navigation bar, like the Bootstrap navigation search box?

The reason I suggested giving an input tag the select2 functionality is because the styling is already done for input tags. However, there is no reason one couldn't change the select2 select style to match Bootstrap's navigation search box (and that is probably easier and logically it makes more sensible than changing select2's core functionality).

Thanks for the feedback, and I'd love to hear any thoughts you have on styling.

EDIT: Incidentally, Example 11 of the latest version for multiple input basically reflects what I would like to have (in terms of input style being an <input> tag). This doesn't seem to be in version 1.0, and multiple selects isn't what I'm looking for, but that's basically the idea. :)

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you can give it an input tag, but that will put it into multiselect mode. if you are truly selecting then cant you simply use a multiselect, override change event and clear the box after a selection is done + redirect or handle the choice somehow?

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Thanks - that's helpful. As this is essentially styling and beyond the scope, I'll close it. Feel free to re-open if you think Bootstrap-styling comes into the scope of select2's awesomeness. :)

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