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

My answer is late, but i want to add some information that is missed in all above answers.

1) If you want to select single value in chosen select.

$('#select-id').val("22").trigger('chosen:updated');

2) If you are using multiple chosen select, then may you need to set multiple values at single time.

$('#documents').val(["22", "25", "27"]).trigger('chosen:updated');

Information gathered from following links:
1) Chosen Docs
2) Chosen Github Discussion