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        <h1>Select2</h1>
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          The jQuery replacement for select boxes
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          <a href="announcements-4.0.html" class="btn btn-success btn-lg">
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            Download
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          <strong>Version</strong> 4.0.0 <em>beta</em>
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    <a href="http://select2.github.io/select2/">Looking for the Select2 3.5.2 docs?</a>
    We have moved them to a new location while we work on Select2 4.0.
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    Select2 gives you a customizable select box with support for searching,
    tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling, and many other highly used
    options.
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    <h2>
      Getting started with Select2
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    <p>
      In order to use Select2, you must include the JavaScript and CSS file on
      your website. You can get these files built for you from many different
      locations.
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    <h3>
      Using Select2 from a CDN
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      Select2 is hosted on both the
      <a href="https://cdnjs.com/libraries/select2">cdnjs</a> and
      <a href="http://www.jsdelivr.com/#!select2">jsDelivr</a> CDNs, allowing
      you to quickly include Select2 on your website.
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      <li>
        Include the following lines of code in the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code>
        section of your HTML.

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&lt;link href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.0/select2.min.css" /&gt;
&lt;script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/select2/4.0.0/select2.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
</pre>

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          Immediately following a new release, it takes some time for CDNs to
          catch up and get the new versions live on the CDN.
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      <li>
        Initialize Select2 on the <code>&gt;select&lt;</code> element that you
        want to make awesome.

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&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  $('select').select2();
&lt;/script&gt;
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        Check out the <a href="examples.html">examples page</a> to start using
        the additional features of Select2.
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    <h3>
      Downloading the code locally
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    <p>
      In some situations, you can't use Select2 from a CDN and you must include
      the files through your own static file servers.
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      <li>
        <a href="https://github.com/select2/select2/tags">
          Download the code
        </a>
        from GitHub and copy the <code>dist</code> directory to your project.
      </li>
      <li>
        Include the following lines of code in the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code>
        section of your HTML.

<pre class="code">
&lt;link href="path/to/select2.min.css" /&gt;
&lt;script src="path/to/select2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
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        Check out the <a href="examples.html">examples page</a> to start using
        the additional features of Select2.
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    <h2>
      About
    </h2>

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        <a href="https://github.com/select2/select2">
          Source code, hosted on GitHub
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        <a href="https://github.com/select2/select2/issues">
          Bug tracker
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        <a href="community.html">
          Community and support
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