setting the default value on a Select2 dropdown
<p>I have declared a select2 dropdown on an MVC form in the following way:</p>

<pre><code>@Html.DropDownListFor(m =&gt; m.ContactGroup.Id, Model.ContactGroupSelectList, "Select a Contact Group")
</code></pre>

<p>This populates and displays the initial value as expected. On a change event of another dropdown, I want to set the above back to it's default value (by default, I mean the place holder value "Select a Contact Group" so it's not part of the actual data). if I do either of the following it sets the value back to an empty string (blank). I've looked all over the internet but have had no luck finding a solution:   <code>$('#ContactGroup_Id').select2("val", "Select a Contact Group");
$('#ContactGroup_Id').select2("val", "0");</code> </p>