How do I change selected value of select2 dropdown with JqGrid?

I'm using Oleg's select2 demo, but I am wondering whether it would be possible to change the currently selected value in the dropdown menu.

For example, if the four values loaded were: "Any", "Fruit", "Vegetable", "Meat" and the dropdown list defaulted to "Any", how would I be able to change that to "Fruit" in the JqGrid event loadComplete?

Is this possible?

For select2 version >= 4.0.0

The other solutions might not work, however the following examples should work.

Solution 1: Causes all attached change events to trigger, including select2

$('select').val('1').trigger('change');

Solution 2: Causes JUST select2 change event to trigger

$('select').val('1').trigger('change.select2');

See this jsfiddle for examples of these. Thanks to @minlare for Solution 2.

Explanation:

Say I have a best friend select with people's names. So Bob, Bill and John (in this example I assume the Value is the same as the name). First I initialize select2 on my select:

$('#my-best-friend').select2();

Now I manually select Bob in the browser. Next Bob does something naughty and I don't like him anymore. So the system unselects Bob for me:

$('#my-best-friend').val('').trigger('change');

Or say I make the system select the next in the list instead of Bob:

// I have assume you can write code to select the next guy in the list
$('#my-best-friend').val('Bill').trigger('change');  

Notes on Select 2 website (see Deprecated and removed methods) that might be useful for others:

.select2('val') The "val" method has been deprecated and will be removed in Select2 4.1. The deprecated method no longer includes the triggerChange parameter.

You should directly call .val on the underlying element instead. If you needed the second parameter (triggerChange), you should also call .trigger("change") on the element. $('select').val('1').trigger('change'); // instead of $('select').select2('val', '1');

Looking at the select2 docs you use the below to get/set the value.

$("#select").select2("val"); //get the value
$("#select").select2("val", "CA"); //set the value

@PanPipes has pointed out that this has changed for 4.x (go toss him an upvote below). val is now called directly

$("#select").val("CA");

So within the loadComplete of the jqGrid you can get whatever value you are looking for then set the selectbox value.

Notice from the docs

> Notice that in order to use this method you must define the > initSelection function in the options so Select2 knows how to > transform the id of the object you pass in val() to the full object it > needs to render selection. If you are attaching to a select element > this function is already provided for you.

this.$("#yourSelector").select2("data", { id: 1, text: "Some Text" });

this should be of help.

This should be even easier.

$("#e1").select2("val", ["View" ,"Modify"]);

But make sure the values which you pass are already present in the HTMl

If you want to add new value='newValue' and text='newLabel', you should add this code:

1. Add new Option to <select>:

    var opt = "<option value='newValue' selected ='selected'>" + newLabel+ " </option>";
    $(selLocationID).html(opt);
   

2. Trigger <select> change to selected value:

    $(selLocationID).val('newValue').trigger("change");
   

Just wanted to add a second answer. If you have already rendered the select as a select2, you will need to have that reflected in your selector as follows:

$("#s2id_originalSelectId").select2("val", "value to select");

You have two options - as @PanPipes answer states you can do the following.

$(element).val(val).trigger('change');

This is an acceptable solution only if one doesn't have any custom actions binded to the change event. The solution I use in this situation is to trigger a select2 specific event which updates the select2 displayed selection.

$(element).val(val).trigger('change.select2');

Having some troubles with setting a String option selected in a select2:

With the option: "option string1 /option" used:

$('#select').val("string1").change(); 

BUT with an option with a value: option value "E" string1 /option :

$('#select').val("E").change(); // you must enter the Value instead of the string

Hopes this help someone struggling with the same issue.

if you want to select a single value then use $('#select').val(1).change()

if you want to select multiple values then set value in array so you can use this code $('#select').val([1,2,3]).change()

For V4 Select2 if you want to change both the value of the select2 and the text representation of the drop down.

var intValueOfFruit = 1;
var selectOption = new Option("Fruit", intValueOfFruit, true, true);
$('#select').append(selectOption).trigger('change');

This will set not only the value behind the scenes but also the text display for the select2.

Pulled from https://select2.github.io/announcements-4.0.html#removed-methods

do this

 $('select#id').val(selectYear).select2();

My Expected code :

$('#my-select').val('').change();

working perfectly thank to @PanPipes for the usefull one.

if you have ajax data source please refer this for bugs free

https://select2.org/programmatic-control/add-select-clear-items

// Set up the Select2 control

$('#mySelect2').select2({
    ajax: {
        url: '/api/students'
    }
});

// Fetch the preselected item, and add to the control

var studentSelect = $('#mySelect2');
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: '/api/students/s/' + studentId
}).then(function (data) {
    // create the option and append to Select2
    var option = new Option(data.full_name, data.id, true, true);
    studentSelect.append(option).trigger('change');

    // manually trigger the `select2:select` event
    studentSelect.trigger({
        type: 'select2:select',
        params: {
            data: data
        }
    });
});

if you want to set a selected item when you know the text from drop down list and don't know the value, here is an example:

Say you figured out a timezone and want to set it, but values has time_zone_id in them.

        var timeZone = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;
        var $select2 = $('#time-zone');
        var selected = $select2.find("option:contains('"+timeZone+"')").val();
        $select2.val(selected).trigger('change.select2'); 

you can simply use the get/set method for set the value

$("#select").select2("val"); //get the value
$("#select").select2("val", "CA"); //set the value

or you can do this:

$('#select').val("E").change(); // you must enter the Value instead of the string

// Set up the Select2 control
$('#mySelect2').select2({
    ajax: {
        url: '/api/students'
    }
});

// Fetch the preselected item, and add to the control
var studentSelect = $('#mySelect2');
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: '/api/students/s/' + studentId
}).then(function (data) {
    // create the option and append to Select2
    var option = new Option(data.full_name, data.id, true, true);
    studentSelect.append(option).trigger('change');

    // manually trigger the `select2:select` event
    studentSelect.trigger({
        type: 'select2:select',
        params: {
            data: data
        }
    });
});

Font : Select 2 documentation