How to Set Selected value in Multi-Value Select in Jquery-Select2.?

Question

hi all i am binding my dropdown with Jquery-Select2. Its working fine but now i need to Bind my Multi-Value selectBox by using Jquery-Select2.

M

Answer 1

you can add the selected values in an array and set it as the value for default selection

eg:

var selectedItems =[];
selectedItems.push("your selected items");
..
$('#drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations').select2('val',selectedItems );

Try this, this should definitely work!

Answer 2

Using select2 jquery library:

$('#selector').val(arrayOfValues).trigger('change')

Answer 3

no need to do so many things. for set value using multiple select2 var selectedvalue="1,2,3"; //if first 3 products are selected. $('#ddlProduct').val(selectedvalue);

Answer 4

I get this post is old but there have been changes to how select2 works now and the answer to this question is extremely simple.

To set the values in a multi select2 is as follows

$('#Books_Illustrations').val([1,2,3]).change();

There is no need to specify .select2 in jquery anymore, simply .val

Also there will be times you will not want to fire the change event because you might have some other code that will execute which is what will happen if you use the method above so to get around that you can change the value without firing the change event like so

$('#Books_Illustrations').select2([1,2,3], null, false);

Answer 5

Well actually your only need $.each to get all values, it will help you jsfiddle.net/NdQbw/5

<div class="divright">
            <select id="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations" class="leaderMultiSelctdropdown Books_Illustrations" name="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations" multiple="">
                <option value=" ">No illustrations</option>
                <option value="a" selected>Illustrations</option>
                <option value="b">Maps</option>
                <option value="c" selected>selectedPortraits</option>
            </select>
    </div>

<div class="divright">
        <select id="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations1" class=" Books_Illustrations" name="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations" multiple="">
            <option value=" ">No illustrations</option>
            <option value="a">Illustrations</option>
            <option value="b">Maps</option>
            <option value="c">selectedPortraits</option>
        </select>
</div>

<button class="getValue">Get Value</button>
<button  class="setValue"> Set  value </button>

<div class="divright">
        <select id="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations2" class="leaderMultiSelctdropdown Books_Illustrations" name="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations" multiple="">
            <option value=" ">No illustrations</option>
            <option value="a" selected>Illustrations</option>
            <option value="b">Maps</option>
            <option value="c" selected>selectedPortraits</option>
        </select>
</div>

<div class="divright">
        <select id="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations3" class=" Books_Illustrations" name="drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations" multiple="">
            <option value=" ">No illustrations</option>
            <option value="a">Illustrations</option>
            <option value="b">Maps</option>
            <option value="c">selectedPortraits</option>
        </select>
</div>

<button class="getValue1">Get Value</button>
<button  class="setValue1"> Set  value </button>

The script:

 var selectedValues = new Array();
    selectedValues[0] = "a";
    selectedValues[1] = "c";

$(".getValue").click(function() {
    alert($(".leaderMultiSelctdropdown").val());
});
$(".setValue").click(function() {
   $(".Books_Illustrations").val(selectedValues);
});

$('#drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations2, #drp_Books_Ill_Illustrations3').select2();


$(".getValue1").click(function() {
    alert($(".leaderMultiSelctdropdown").val());
});

$(".setValue1").click(function() {
    //You need a id for set values
    $.each($(".Books_Illustrations"), function(){
            $(this).select2('val', selectedValues);
    });
});

Answer 6

var valoresArea=VALUES
// it has the multiple values to set separated by comma
var arrayArea = valoresArea.split(',');
$('#area').select2('val',arrayArea);