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According to the docs when I want to set a new value by jQuery I should just call $('#selectid').val(value).trigger('change') . This is not acceptable for me though because I use the change event to handle user interactions. However usually I don't want to trigger these when the value is set by javascript.

Is there a way to set the value without triggering the event? I would not mind triggering some custom event like .trigger('select2:change') or something.

Select2 only officially supports the change event for notifying the component when there is a change. This is pretty standard and we're avoiding implementing a custom event to get around this.

You can trigger the internal handler by just triggering change.select2 , thanks to the way that jQuery namespaces events.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/17819709/359284#31856728

This is a duplicate of #3620 .

In my opinion you should put this to documentation instead of or at least alongside with the normal change event.

Thanks!