Manipulating Select2 fields

• JoelStransky

• September 10, 2016 at 10:01 am

I have an ACF Select field (with Stylized UI set to Yes) that I need to be able to call select2 commands on.
To gain a reference to the fields I used an acf js filter.

var $expirationSelect2;
  acf.add_filter('select2_args', function( args, $select, settings ){
    if ( settings.key === "field_57d1ce76b8a84" ) {
      $expirationSelect2 = $select;
    }
    // do something to args

    // return
    return args;

  });

From my understanding, this should allow me to later call things like:
$expirationSelect2.select2("open");

But nothing works. I know acf has wrapped select2 a bit but I don’t know if that wrapper has an api I should be using instead. Please help.

• JoelStransky

• September 10, 2016 at 10:34 am

UPDATE: apparently the actual selector is a sibling of the <select> tag.
$expirationSelect2.siblings('input').select2("open"); appears to work.