Change placeholder in a taxonomy (select2) field

• DutchIgor

• December 11, 2019 at 11:41 pm

Hi,

I have an field group with a taxonomy field. This field has Appearance set to “Select”. Now in the resulting select2 field, I would like to change the placeholder. The only reference to the placeholder that I can find is in the javascript api so I have tried the following:

    acf.add_filter('select2_args', function( args, $select, settings ){
        
        if ( 'event_name' == settings.field.data.name ) {
            args.placeholder = 'Search for event';
        }

        // return
        return args;
    
    });

Unfortunately the placeholder is still the default “Select”. Is there another way to set the placeholder for this field? Maybe on the server side?

• DutchIgor

• December 15, 2019 at 8:33 pm

The solution ended up being very simple. Just update the data in the $select variable instead of the placeholder in args. This is done by replacing the line
args.placeholder = 'Search for event';
with
$select.data( 'placeholder', 'Search for event' );