SO - 15174635

by Arun P Johny

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/select2-3.3.1/select2.css">
<script src="http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/select2-3.3.1/select2.js"></script>
<input id="postcodes" style="width: 200px"/>

JavaScript

$("#postcodes").select2({
    placeholder : "Search for a postcode",
    multiple : true,
    minimumInputLength : 1,
    data:[],
    initSelection : function (element, callback) {
        var data = [{id:1,text:'bug'},{id:2,text:'duplicate'}];
        callback(data);
    }
}).select2('val', ['1', '2']);