How to select a specific node programmatically?

Question

I have a jstree. I want to select the node which is bound to the object which has a location with id of 158. This works but seems stupid. What\'s the more idiomatic way of doing

Answer 1

Based on jsTree groups you can try

jQuery("#getStartedTree").jstree("select_node", "#test2"); 

if the data looks like

The JSON in the TextFile.txt - borrowed from your simple example
 [
     {
     "data" : "A node",
     "children" : [ "Child 1", "Child 2" ]
     },
     {
     "attr" : { "id" : "test1" },
         "data" : {
             "title" : "Long format demo",
             "attr" : { "id" : "test2", "href" : "#" }
         }
     }
 ] 

and jsTree set up

My tree container is 


My jsTree code
 $("#getStartedTree").jstree({
            "themes": {
                "theme": "default",
                "url": "../App_Css/Themes/Default/style.css",
                "dots": true,
                "icons": true
            },
            "json_data": {
                "ajax": {
                    "url": "../SiteMaps/TextFile.txt",
                    "dataType": "json",
                    "data": function(n) {
                        return { id: n.attr ? n.attr("id") : 0 };
                    }
                }
            },
            "plugins": ["themes", "json_data", "ui"]
        }); 

Is that what you are after?