From a5422805954be911ebf76e20a27de0721f4a55c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Vaynberg <igor.vaynberg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:00:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] better handling of empty string in select.val(). issue #34

---
 select2.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/select2.js b/select2.js
index 467ee8bd..85ce780a 100755
--- a/select2.js
+++ b/select2.js
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@
                 this.updateSelection(data);
             } else {
                 // val is an object
-                this.opts.element.val((val === null) ? "" : val.id);
+                this.opts.element.val((val === null || val === "") ? "" : val.id);
                 this.updateSelection(val);
             }
             this.setPlaceholder();