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 option is selected, but nothing (that I can see) on externally changing the currently selected value.

I have made a jsFiddle to demonstrate the code and my attempted ways of changing the selection:

$('button').click(function() {     $('select').val(2);     $('select').chosen().val(2);     $('select').chosen().select(2); }); 

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");