Changing selection in a select with the Chosen plugin

Question

I\'m trying to change the currently selected option in a select with the Chosen plugin.

The documentation covers updating the list, and triggering an event when an o

Answer 1

From the "Updating Chosen Dynamically" section in the docs: You need to trigger the 'chosen:updated' event on the field

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('select').chosen();

    $('button').click(function() {
        $('select').val(2);
        $('select').trigger("chosen:updated");
    });

});

NOTE: versions prior to 1.0 used the following:

$('select').trigger("liszt:updated");