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				@@ -12,16 +12,15 @@ $('select').select2('data'); 
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				-    As Select2 uses the HTML <code><SELECT></code> element to store the selection result, the selection data are represented by <code><OPTION></code> elements and can be accessed in the plain jQuery/DOM manner. The resulting elements will have properties/values from the source data objects, stored by the means of jQuery <code>data()</code> method and accessible by key <code>'data'</code>: 
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				+    As Select2 uses the HTML <code><SELECT></code> element to store the selection result, the selection data are represented by <code><OPTION></code> elements and can be accessed in the plain jQuery/DOM manner: 
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				-// Retrieve source data object's data of the first selected element 
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				-$('select').find(':selected').data('data'); 
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				+$('select').find(':selected'); 
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				-    Another technique is not to rely on jQuery's <code>data()</code> method but to extend the <code><OPTION></code> elements representing selection with the HTML data-* attributes containing arbitrary data from the source data objects: 
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				+    It is possible to extend the <code><OPTION></code> elements representing selection with the HTML data-* attributes containing arbitrary data from the source data objects: 
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