jQuery Chosen plugin - select option manually

Question

I've been trying to select some options manually in the Chosen plugin.

Why i need something like that?

My concept is :Let's say a user wants to put some tags to a video,when he inserts the video to the database the tags will be saved in a database too. When he wants to edit this video i have to query these tags from the database and show them to the user so he can edit/delete/add new.

My question:

Is there any way to put these tags in an array and then put them as an already selection?

Answer 1

Just add the selected property when you get the existing tags from the database. Let us say a video is tagged with a and b , so when you show the select list it would look like this:

<select id="assets" data-placeholder="Choose assets" class="chzn-select" multiple style="width:350px;">
    <option value="a" selected>a</option>
    <option value="b" selected>b</option>
    <option value="c">c</option>
    <option value="d">d</option>
    <option value="e">e</option>
    <option value="f">f</option>
    <option value="g">g</option>
</select>