🆚 Choices.js vs. Select2
- 📈 Select2 is much more popular than Choices.js.
- 🌍 Select2 is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Choices.js
Select2Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Choices.js is a vanilla, lightweight, configurable select box/text input 
JavaScript library.
Select2 is a 
jQuery-based replacement for 
HTML select elements that enhances dropdown inputs with advanced search and selection capabilities.
It supports client-side and remote data sources via AJAX, infinite scrolling of results for large datasets, tagging and tokenized selections, multi-select functionality, and customizable theming.
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #180
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #30
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Select2 JavaScript library is 35 times more popular than Choices.js.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Select2 is more popular than Choices.js in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Italy
Australia
India
Canada
Netherlands
Awards
- ⬆️ 124th most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 135th most popular in South Africa in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 144th most popular in Turkey in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 144th most popular in Mexico in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 145th most popular in India in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Bangladesh in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Latvia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Tanzania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Palestine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Select2 is more popular than Choices.js in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Toast UI🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.