[jquery] Reset select2 value and show placeholder

How do I set the placeholder on value reset by select2. In my example If locations or grade select boxes are clicked and my select2 has a value than the value of select2 should reset and show the default placeholder. This script is resetting the value but won't show the placeholder

$("#locations, #grade ").change(function() {
   $('#e6').select2('data', {
     placeholder: "Studiengang wählen",
     id: null,
     text: ''
   });
});

$("#e6").select2({
   placeholder: "Studiengang wählen",
   width: 'resolve',
   id: function(e) {
     return e.subject;
   },
   minimumInputLength: 2,
   ajax: {
     url: "index.php?option=com_unis&task=search.locator&tmpl=component&<?php echo JSession::getFormToken() ?>=1",
     dataType: 'json',
     data: function(term, page) {
       return {
         q: term, // search term
         g: $('#grade option:selected').val(),
         o: $('#locations option:selected').val()
       };
     },
     results: function(data, page) {
       return {
         results: data
       };
     }
   },
   formatResult: subjectFormatResult,
   formatSelection: subjectFormatSelection,
   dropdownCssClass: "bigdrop",
   escapeMarkup: function(m) {
     return m;
   }
});

With Select2 version 4.0.9 this works for me:

$( "#myselect2" ).val('').trigger('change');

If you want to clear all select2 inputs when closing a modal for instance then you can add a class "select2" and set them all back to their place holders like so.

$('#myModal').on('hidden.bs.modal', function (e) {
    $(this)
        .find(".select2").select2({placeholder: "Choose an option"})
        .val('').trigger('change.select2');
});

This approach of resetting all at once can be used for forms either. The version is which this is working for me is 4.0.10

After trying the first 10 solutions here and failing, I found this solution to work (see "nilov commented on Apr 7 • edited" comment down the page):

(function ($) {
   $.fn.refreshDataSelect2 = function (data) {
       this.select2('data', data);

       // Update options
       var $select = $(this[0]);
       var options = data.map(function(item) {
           return '<option value="' + item.id + '">' + item.text + '</option>';
       });
       $select.html(options.join('')).change();
   };
})(jQuery);

The change is then made:

var data = [{ id: 1, text: 'some value' }];
$('.js-some-field').refreshDataSelect2(data);

(The author originally showed var $select = $(this[1]);, which a commenter corrected to var $select = $(this[0]);, which I show above.)

Using select2 version 3.2 this worked for me:

$('#select2').select2("data", "");

Didn't need to implement initSelection

For the place holder

$("#stateID").select2({
    placeholder: "Select a State"
});

To reset a select 2

$('#stateID').val('');
$('#stateID').trigger('change');

Hope this helps

Select2 uses a specific CSS class, so an easy way to reset it is:

$('.select2-container').select2('val', '');

And you have the advantage of if you have multiple Select2 at the same form, all them will be reseted with this single command.

Use following to configure select2

    $('#selectelementid').select2({
        placeholder: "Please select an agent",
        allowClear: true // This is for clear get the clear button if wanted 
    });

And to clear select input programmatically

    $("#selectelementid").val("").trigger("change");
    $("#selectelementid").trigger("change");

This is the correct way:

 $("#customers_select").val('').trigger('change');

I am using the latest release of Select2.

My solution is:

$el.off('select2:unselect')
$el.on('select2:unselect', function (event) {
    var $option = $('<option value="" selected></option>');
    var $selected = $(event.target);

    $selected.find('option:selected')
             .remove()
             .end()
             .append($option)
             .trigger('change');
    });

Well whenever I did

$('myselectdropdown').select2('val', '').trigger('change');

I started getting some kind of lag after some three to four triggers. I suppose there's a memory leak. Its not within my code because if I do remove the this line, my app is lag free.

Since I have allowClear options set to true, I went with

$('.select2-selection__clear').trigger('mousedown');

This can be followed by a $('myselectdropdown').select2('close'); event trigger on the select2 dom element in case you wanna close the open suggestion drop down.

$('myselectdropdown').select2('val', '0')

where 0 is your first value of the dropdown

Use this code into your js file

$('#id').val('1');
$('#id').trigger('change');

The accepted answer does not work in my case. I'm trying this, and it's working:

Define select2:

$("#customers_select").select2({
    placeholder: "Select a State",
    allowClear: true
});

or

$("#customers_select").select2({
    placeholder: "Select a State"
});

To reset:

$("#customers_select").val('').trigger('change')

or

$("#customers_select").empty().trigger('change')

The DOM interface, already keeps track of the initial state...

So doing the following is enough:

$("#reset").on("click", function () {
    $('#my_select option').prop('selected', function() {
        return this.defaultSelected;
    });
});

The only thing can work for me is:

$('select2element').val(null).trigger("change")

I'm using version 4.0.3

Reference

According to Select2 Documentation

From select2 website,

$("#mySelect2ControlId").val(null).trigger("change");

as of v.4.0.x...

to clear the values, but also restore the placeholder use...

.html('<option></option>');  // defaults to placeholder

if it's empty, it will select the first option item instead which may not be what you want

.html(''); // defaults to whatever item is first

frankly...Select2 is such a pain in the butt, it amazes me it hasn't been replaced.

So, to reset the form some of you will have a reset button. Add the following code inside the script tag

$('.your_btn_class').click(function(){
    $('#select_field_id').val([]);
    $("#select_field_id").select2({
    placeholder: "this is a placeholder",
    });
});

Or just to empty select field without keeping a placeholder:

$('.your_btn_class').click(function(){
    $('#select_field_id').val([]);
 });

You can clear te selection by

$('#object').empty();

But it wont turn you back to your placeholder.

So its a half solution

Use this :

$('.select').val([]).trigger('change');

$("#customers_select").val([]).trigger('change')

this will remove values AND most important for me - it also remove an empty x button

Select2 has changed their API:

Select2: The select2("val") method has been deprecated and will be removed in later Select2 versions. Use $element.val() instead.

The best way to do this now is:

$('#your_select_input').val('');

Edit: December 2016 Comments suggest that the below is the updated way to do this:

$('#your_select_input').val([]);

I dont know if anyone else experienced this, but once the code hit the trigger('change') my javascript just stopped, never returned form the trigger, and the rest of the function was never executed.

I am not familiar enough with jquerys trigger to say that this is expected on not. I got around it by wrapping it in a setTimeout, ugly but effective.

I know this is kind of an old question, but this works for the select2 version 4.0

 $('#select2-element').val('').trigger('change');

or

$('#select2-element').val('').trigger('change.select2'); 

if you have change events bound to it

This solution work for me (Select2 4.0.13)

$('#select').on("select2:unselecting", function (e) {
   $(this).val('').trigger('change');
   e.preventDefault();
});

I've read all the answers and many have been deprecated.

This is how currently you can clear and set the place holder value:

// Clear and put a blank select placeholder
$("#MySelect").prop('disabled', false).find("option:gt(0)").remove();

One [very] hacky way to do it (I saw it work for version 4.0.3):

var selection = $("#DelegateId").data("select2").selection;
var evt = document.createEvent("UIEvents");
selection._handleClear(evt);
selection.trigger("toggle", {});

• allowClear must be set to true
• an empty option must exist in the select element

I tried the above solutions but it didn't work for me.

This is kind of hack, where you do not have to trigger change.

$("select").select2('destroy').val("").select2();

or

$("select").each(function () { //added a each loop here
        $(this).select2('destroy').val("").select2();
});

I do this for this case:

  $('#select').val('');
  $('.select2.select2-container').remove();
  $('.select2').select2();

1. I change the select value into empty
2. I remove container for select2
3. Re-call select2

Following the recommended way of doing it. Found in the documentation https://select2.github.io/options.html#my-first-option-is-being-displayed-instead-of-my-placeholder (this seems to be a fairly common issue):

When this happens it usually means that you do not have a blank <option></option> as the first option in your <select>.

as in:

<select>
   <option></option>
   <option value="foo">your option 1</option>
   <option value="bar">your option 2</option>
   <option value="etc">...</option>
</select>

In order to reset the values and the placeholder I just reinitiate the select2 element:

$( "#select2element" ).select2({
    placeholder: '---placeholder---',
    allowClear: true,
    minimumResultsForSearch: 5,
    width:'100%'
});

TO REMOVE SELECTED VALUE

$('#employee_id').select2('val','');

TO CLEAR OPTION VALUES

$('#employee_id').html('');

Before you clear the value using this $("#customers_select").select2("val", ""); Try setting focus to any other control on reset click.

This will show the placeholder again.

Firstly you must define select2 like this:

$('#id').select2({
    placeholder: "Select groups...",
    allowClear: true,
    width: '100%',
})

To reset select2, simply you may use the following code block:

$("#id > option").removeAttr("selected");
$("#id").trigger("change");

<label for="RECEIVED_BY" class="control-label"> Received into store By </label>
<label class="pull-right">
  <button
    type="button"
    title="Clear Received into store By"
    class="receive_clear clear-button"
    aria-label="Select2 options"
  >
    x
  </button></label
>
<select type="text" class="clear_receive_info_by">
  <option value="">--Select--</option>
  <option value="value1">value1</option>
  <option value="value2">value2</option>
  <option value="value3">value3</option>
</select>

jQuery:

var $clear_receive_info_by = $(".clear_receive_info_by").select2();
$(".receive_clear").on("click", function () {
    $clear_receive_info_by.val(null).trigger("change");
});

I was also having this problem and it stems from val(null).trigger("change"); throwing a No select2/compat/inputData error before the placeholder gets reset. I solved it by catching the error and setting the placeholder directly (along with a width). Note: If you have more than one you will need to catch each one.

try{
    $("#sel_item_ID").select2().val(null).trigger("change");
}catch(err){
    console.debug(err)
}
try{
    $("#sel_location_ID").select2().val(null).trigger("change");
}catch(err){
    console.debug(err)
}
$('.select2-search__field')[0].placeholder='All Items';
$('.select2-search__field')[1].placeholder='All Locations';
$('.select2-search__field').width(173);

I'm running Select2 4.0.3

I have tried above solutions but none worked with version 4x.

What i want to achieve is: clear all options but don't touch the placeholder. This code works for me.

selector.find('option:not(:first)').remove().trigger('change');

For users loading remote data, this will reset the select2 to the placeholder without firing off ajax. Works with v4.0.3:

$("#lstProducts").val("").trigger("change.select2");