How to get Selected Text from select2 when using <input>

As of Select2 4.x, it always returns an array, even for non-multi select lists.

var data = $('your-original-element').select2('data')alert(data[0].text);alert(data[0].id);

For Select2 3.x and lower

Single select:

var data = $('your-original-element').select2('data');if(data) {  alert(data.text);}

Note that when there is no selection, the variable 'data' will be null.

Multi select:

var data = $('your-original-element').select2('data')alert(data[0].text);alert(data[0].id);alert(data[1].text);alert(data[1].id);

From the 3.x docs:

data Gets or sets the selection. Analogous to val method, but works with objects instead of ids.

data method invoked on a single-select with an unset value will return null, while a data method invoked on an empty multi-select will return [].

I finally figured it out doing this:

var $your-original-element = $('.your-original-element');var data = $your-original-element.select2('data')[0]['text'];alert(data);

if you also want the value:

var value = $your-original-element.select2('data')[0]['id'];alert(value);

Used this for show text

var data = $('#id-selected-input').select2('data'); data.forEach(function (item) {     alert(item.text); })