Preselecting option in multiselect using val()

Question

How do you preselect an option in a multiple select html tag using jquery's val()?

What I mean by this is that say you have a multiselect component and you want some of the values to be preselected?

Answer 1

Assuming I've understood your question correctly, you can pass an array of values to the .val() method:

$("#yourSelect").val(["value1", "value2"]);

Here's a working example.