Let\'s assume you have the following HTML5
My contribution on how to get value of data-attibute of selected option using Select2 event (3.5) (thx to @loreto g's answer):
<select id="myselect">
<option value="foo" data-type="bar" data-options='baz'></option>
</select>
<script>
var myselect = $('#myselect').select2();
myselect.on('select2-selecting', function(sel){
var seltype = sel.choice.element[0].attributes['data-type'].value,
seloptions = sel.choice.element[0].attributes['data-options'].value;
});
</script>
Hope this helps
Select2 v4 relies on <select>
tags instead of hidden <input>
tags so it's now easier to get the selected option or options: you just refer to the original <select>
. This may have also been the case with Select2 v3 but I've only used Select2 v4.
$('#example option:selected').attr('data-id')
jsfiddle demonstration
See also Get selected value in dropdown list using JavaScript?
Edit: I like this answer for general purpose data object access:
var d = $("#dropdown").select2("data");
d
will be an array containing the selected item(s) as objects, so to access the id
property of the first item:
var id = d[0].id;
After hours of trying to solve this, I have manage to pull out the attribute. I am using 3.5.4
$("#select2").select2('data').element[0].attributes[1].nodeValue
HTML
<select id="select2" name="course" class="form-control">
<option></option>
<optgroup label="Alabama">
<option value="City 1" data-url="/alabama/city-1">City 1</option>
<option value="City 2" data-url="/alabama/city-2">City 2</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
$("#select2").select2('data').element[0].attributes[0].nodeValue --> Value Attribute
$("#select2").select2('data').element[0].attributes[1].nodeValue --> Data-URl Attribute
$(document).ready(function() {
$('select#myselect').select2({
templateResult: formatOutput
});
});
function formatOutput (item) {
var $state = $(item.element).data('id') + ' ' + item.text;
return $state;
};
There is no direct method with select2, you can use a combinaison of select2 data and jQuery :
$("#example").select2().find(":selected").data("id");
First you get the select2 data then you find your selected option with jQuery and finally the data-attribute.
so simple, using jquery api [tested against select2 4.x version]
$('#select').on('select2:select', function (e) {
let id = $(e.params.data.element).data('id');
});