How to trigger tag creation in select2 single select (e.g. when adjacent button is pressed)?

Question

I am using select2 4.0.3. I have a select2 box to enter email addresses, and I would like to make sure that all email addresses are included in

.val()

, also the one that the user was still typing in the search field.

The form field is referenced by

$('.invite-emails-field')

. When I press the Send button, in the event handler

$('.invite-emails-field').val()

just gives me the first two addresses

test1@example.com

and

test2@example.com

, but not the third address (

test3@example.com

).

This is how I initialize the select2 element:

$('.invite-emails-field').select2({

  tags: true,

  tokenSeparators: [',', ' '],

  selectOnBlur: true

});

The

selectOnBlur

has no effect, and I cannot find anything else that works on select2 v4. I tried firing several events at various elements, none of it worked.

I expect that when I press the Send button, that I can make some call to the select2 box to trigger creating a tag for the contents of whatever is then in the search field

test3@example.com

, and that subsequently

.val()

returns an array with all three addresses.

Update: I created a jsFiddle for you to play with. Enter input like this:

View of jsFiddle before pressing Send button

and then press the Send button, you will see:

where

test3@example.com

is missing from the output.

Note that in my real application I have disabled the dropdown because I just want the tagging behaviour.

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Answer 1

You need to add selectOnClose and set it to true so that it creates the tag for you when you close / click off of the search input.

$('select').select2({
  selectOnClose: true
});

See the official documentation here: https://select2.github.io/options.html#can-i-select-the-highlighted-result-when-the-dropdown-is-closed

How to trigger tag creation in select2 single select (e.g. when adjacent button is pressed)?

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