JQuery select2 set default value from an option in list?

Question

I want to be able to set the default/selected value of a select element using the JQuery Select2 plugin.

Answer 1

One way to accomplish this is...

$('select').select2().select2('val', $('.select2 option:eq(1)').val());

So basically you first initalize the plugin then specify the default value using the 'val' parameter. The actual value is taken from the specified option, in this case #1. So the selected value from this example would be "bar".

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Hope this is useful to someone else.