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

In case of multiple type of select and/or if you want to remove already selected items one by one, directly within a dropdown list items, you can use something like:

jQuery("body").on("click", ".result-selected", function() {
    var locID = jQuery(this).attr('class').split('__').pop();
    // I have a class name: class="result-selected locvalue__209"
    var arrayCurrent = jQuery('#searchlocation').val();
    var index = arrayCurrent.indexOf(locID);
    if (index > -1) {
        arrayCurrent.splice(index, 1);
    }
    jQuery('#searchlocation').val(arrayCurrent).trigger('chosen:updated');
});