JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by straeger

HTML

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/select2/3.4.1/select2.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/select2/3.4.1/select2.css">
<input type="hidden" id="test"/>

JavaScript

$("#test").select2({
            placeholder: "Search for a movie",
            minimumInputLength: 1,
            ajax: { // instead of writing the function to execute the request we use Select2's convenient helper
                url: "http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json",
                dataType: 'jsonp',
                data: function (term, page) {
                    return {
                        q: term, // search term
                        page_limit: 10,
                        apikey: "ju6z9mjyajq2djue3gbvv26t" // please do not use so this example keeps working
                    };
                },
                results: function (data, page) { // parse the results into the format expected by Select2.
                    // since we are using custom formatting functions we do not need to alter remote JSON data
                    return {results: data.movies};
                }
            },
            initSelection: function(element, callback) {
                // the input tag has a value attribute preloaded that points to a preselected movie's id
                // this function resolves that id attribute to an object that select2 can render
                // using its formatResult renderer - that way the movie name is shown preselected
                var id=$(element).val();
                if (id!=="") {
                    $.ajax("http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies/"+id+".json", {
                        data: {
                            apikey: "ju6z9mjyajq2djue3gbvv26t"
                        },
                        dataType: "jsonp"
                    }).done(function(data) { callback(data); });
                }
            },
            formatResult: movieFormatResult, // omitted for brevity, see the source of this page
            formatSelection: movieFormatSelection,  // omitted for brevity, see the source of this page
            dropdownCssClass: "bigdrop", // apply css that...