Override Minimum length string of Select2

Question

Select2 Jquery Plugin

I was having hard time how to override the default message for minimum length input in jquery Select2.

by default the plugin gives the following message.

Default Text

Please enter 1 more characters

My requirement was to show, the following text

Required Text

Enter 1 Character

please share the solution. Thanks.

Answer 1

The accepted answer does not work for Select2 v4. Expanding on the comment by @IsaacKleinman, the way to override the default messages for an individual Select2 instance is through the language property:

var opts = {
  language: {
    inputTooShort: function(args) {
      // args.minimum is the minimum required length
      // args.input is the user-typed text
      return "Type more stuff";
    },
    inputTooLong: function(args) {
      // args.maximum is the maximum allowed length
      // args.input is the user-typed text
      return "You typed too much";
    },
    errorLoading: function() {
      return "Error loading results";
    },
    loadingMore: function() {
      return "Loading more results";
    },
    noResults: function() {
      return "No results found";
    },
    searching: function() {
      return "Searching...";
    },
    maximumSelected: function(args) {
      // args.maximum is the maximum number of items the user may select
      return "Error loading results";
    }
  }
};
$('#mySelect').select2(opts);

To override the functions globally, call the set function on the defaults (according to the docs):

$.fn.select2.defaults.set("key", "value")

However, in our code we do it like this:

$.fn.select2.defaults.defaults['language'].searching = function(){
  return 'Custom searching message'
};

I don't know why we don't follow the docs, but it works.