Replace Chosen with select2
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	Rillke
	Jul 16 2013, 2:40 PM

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Hi, I was looking for an awesome way to display selects with icons (and some more markup like smaller a smaller description text below each keyword) and allow adding "multiple tags".

Since Chosen[1] does not support HTML in its rendered result (or at least this is not documented[2]), is there any way to get rid of it and instead use select2[3]?

At least its documentation is a lot more extensive.

[1] https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/ca0bbe33e3d719d88683daab36c4b7326ca42b9e/resources%2Fjquery.chosen%2Fchosen.jquery.js
[2] http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/
[3] http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/select2-latest.html

Version: 1.22.0
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Mentioned In: T93679: Uploading and Displaying 3D files with Fallback
Mentioned Here: T88250: Create tag list / tokenizer / capsule controls widget

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Rillke created this task.Jul 16 2013, 2:40 PM

I'm not opposed, as long as the HTMLForm multi select behavior continues to work. It seems that select2 is better maintained than chosen.

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Ciencia_Al_Poder subscribed.Dec 21 2014, 6:27 PM

Rillke mentioned this in T93679: Uploading and Displaying 3D files with Fallback.Mar 25 2015, 11:39 PM

What about T88250: Create tag list / tokenizer / capsule controls widget in OOjs UI?

Rillke closed this task as a duplicate of T88250: Create tag list / tokenizer / capsule controls widget.Mar 26 2015, 8:54 AM

Amorymeltzer subscribed.Jan 16 2020, 9:11 PM

I wouldn't say this is quite a duplicate — T88250 dealt specifically with OOUI, this is about replacing one external with another. As noted above but even more true now, select2 is somewhat more maintained and featureful (cf. https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/pull/166)

Maintainers of chosen just yesterday marked it as deprecated and unmaintained: https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/commit/91041bc9dd6867f9a1668050a1b092d92027f13b

AFAICT cdnjs doesn't have a policy for removal (https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/issues/12144) so I don't think the upstream is likely to cause issues, but I'd say this gives more proof it should be replaced in core. @Rillke I've reopened this, hope that's alright.

perhaps the frontend standards group can come up with a plan for dealing with this.

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