Trigger an action after selection select2

Question

I am using select2 library for my search.
is there any way to trigger an action after selecting a search result? e.g. open a popup, or a simple js alert.

$("#e6").select2({
    placeholder: "Enter an item id please",
    minimumInputLength: 1,
    ajax: { // instead of writing the function to execute the request we use Select2's convenient helper
        url: "index.php?r=sia/searchresults",
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        quietMillis: 3000,
        data: function (term, page) {
        return {
            q: term, // search term
            page_limit: 10,
            id: 10
            };
        },
        results: function (data, page) { // parse the results into the format expected by Select2.
            // since we are using custom formatting functions we do not need to alter remote JSON data
            return {results: data};
        },
    },

    formatResult: movieFormatResult, // omitted for brevity, see the source of this page
    formatSelection: movieFormatSelection, // omitted for brevity, see the source of this page
    dropdownCssClass: "bigdrop", // apply css that makes the dropdown taller
    escapeMarkup: function (m) { return m; } // we do not want to escape markup since we are displaying html in results
});

Answer 1

See the documentation events section

Depending on the version, one of the snippets below should give you the event you want, alternatively just replace "select2-selecting" with "change".

Version 4.0 +

Events are now in format: select2:selecting (instead of select2-selecting)

Thanks to snakey for the notification that this has changed as of 4.0

$('#yourselect').on("select2:selecting", function(e) { 
   // what you would like to happen
});

Version Before 4.0

$('#yourselect').on("select2-selecting", function(e) { 
   // what you would like to happen
});

Just to clarify, the documentation for select2-selecting reads:

select2-selecting Fired when a choice is being selected in the dropdown, but before any modification has been made to the selection. This event is used to allow the user to reject selection by calling event.preventDefault()

whereas change has:

change Fired when selection is changed.

So change may be more appropriate for your needs, depending on whether you want the selection to complete and then do your event, or potentially block the change.