How to select multiple values in select2 control by jquery?

Question

I want to select multiple options in a select2 multivalue control, when clicking a button. This is useful specially for searches where the user needs to select many option to one of the filters

any idea how to achieve it..? I found how to select an option in select2 single option dropdown, but not in a multiselect control for several options at the same time

Answer 1

Ok, I found the way. It's just passing an array of option values to 'val' argument:

$('#my_select2').select2('val', ["value1", "value2", "value3"]);

Answer 2

you can also do it this way by defining javascript array.

var Values = new Array();
Values.push("value1");
Values.push("value2");
Values.push("value3");

$("#my_select2").val(Values).trigger('change');