# selectize/selectize.js

Selectize is the hybrid of a textbox and <select> box. It's jQuery based, and it has autocomplete and native-feeling keyboard navigation; useful for tagging, contact lists, etc.

Repository: https://github.com/selectize/selectize.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/selectizejs
Homepage: https://selectize.dev/
Language: SCSS
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: tagging, input, select, hacktoberfest, bootstrap, css, javascript, jquery, jquery-plugin
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-04-15T03:14:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 77, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5117, "days_push": 140, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13024, forks 3449 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:01.748900+00:00)

## What it is
Selectize is a jQuery-based hybrid of a textbox and <select> box providing a rich custom select control with autocomplete, tagging, and keyboard navigation. It supports remote data loading, item creation, diacritics/RTL, and an extensible plugin API.

## Use cases
- add autocomplete to a select dropdown
- build a tagging input for contact lists
- create a country selector with search
- load select options from a server as the user types
- let users create new items on the fly
- multi-select with keyboard navigation

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery
- you need a mature, battle-tested select/tagging control with Bootstrap styles
- you need remote data loading or on-the-fly item creation

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app without jQuery (consider choices like downshift or headless UI)
- you need a dependency-free vanilla JS solution

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, select-input, autocomplete, tagging, dropdown, bootstrap, nodejs

## Member repositories
- selectize/selectize.js (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:01.748900+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:35.262552+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/selectize/selectize.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:01.748900+00:00, sha 18521bb87f0b)
  - homepage: https://selectize.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.769621+00:00, sha 403cdbfa97bb)
  - site_page: https://selectize.dev/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.775203+00:00, sha a7f9094b5347)
  - site_page: https://selectize.dev/docs/demos (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.777280+00:00, sha bac92d445ada)
  - site_page: https://selectize.dev/docs/api (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.779169+00:00, sha 6dbcc7ab7d68)
  - site_page: https://selectize.dev/docs/events (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.780688+00:00, sha 4bc18f9b5e39)
  - site_page: https://selectize.dev/docs/plugins (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.782288+00:00, sha b344e6eec0b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.