What are the differences between Chosen and Select2?

Question

Chosen and Select2 are the two more popular libraries for extending selectboxes.

Both seem to be actively maintained, Chosen is older and supports both jQuery and Pr

Answer 1

Some differences I've found working with these two plugins:

• With select2 you can search at any location in the option. For e.g. if you have an option called ABCDEFG and you type in CDE you will get that option in the search results but with chosen you have to type AB.. and so on to get the results.

• I've found that with larger datasets, chosen seems to be faster than select2, especially in IE.