title: How to programmatically select selectables with jQuery UI?
body: <p>I have a range of items that are selectable. I would like to add a button somewhere that activates a preset selection amongst those. Is there a way I can do that?</p>
  
  <p>What I would like is to tell it to "Select these guys" and then have all the events and all fired as normal, so I don't have to call all of those selection events manually.</p>
  
  <p><strong>More info:</strong> The events that I talk about are the ones listed in <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Selectable" rel="noreferrer">their api</a> and on <a href="http://jqueryui.com/demos/selectable/" rel="noreferrer">their demo page</a>:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>selected</li>
  <li>selecting</li>
  <li>start</li>
  <li>stop</li>
  <li>unselected</li>
  <li>unselecting</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>And also, I think there might be data that is set/cleared as well when selecting things. So it's not just to add those css classes.</p>