How to set Default Value in tagging in select2 jquery

Question

I am using select2 (http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/) for my tagging input. from the example in using select2 tagging the code is look like this.

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Answer 1

For Select2 4.0 I had to add the data attribute to select2 and also set value and trigger change, like this:

$('#mySelect').select2({
  data: ['one','two'],
  tags: true
});
$('#mySelect').val(['one','two']).trigger('change')