🆚 jQuery Autocomplete vs. Select2
- 📈 Select2 is much more popular than jQuery Autocomplete.
- 🌎 Select2 is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 jQuery Autocomplete is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
jQuery Autocomplete
Select2Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
jQuery Autocomplete allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields.
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 #88
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #30
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Select2 JavaScript library is 8 times more popular than jQuery Autocomplete.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Select2 is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while jQuery Autocomplete is more popular in China.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Russia
Australia
India
Netherlands
Awards
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Romania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in Kazakhstan 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 jQuery Autocomplete in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Gijgo🗃️ 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.