Select2 - use JSON as local data

Question

I can get this to work...

var options = [{id: 1, text: \'Adair, Charles\'}]  
$(\'#names\').select2({
    data: options,
})

But i cant work

Answer 1

Just to add. This also worked for me:

HTML:

Javascript

$('#names').select2();

var options = $('#names');

$.each(sampleArray, function() {
    options.append($("").val(this.id).text(this.name));
});