How to get Selected Text from select2 when using <input>

Question

I am using the select2 control, loading data via ajax. This requires the use of the tag.

Now, I want to retrieve the selecte

Answer 1

The correct way to do this as of v4 is:

$('.select2-chosen').select2('data')[0].text

It is undocumented so could break in the future without warning.

You will probably want to check if there is a selection first however:

var s = $('.select2-chosen');

if(s.select2('data') && !!s.select2('data')[0]){
    //do work
}