Is the element you are binding chosen to visible from the start? I'm finding that chosen does not like to be bound to an element until it is visible. I tend to

Is the element you are binding chosen to visible from the start? I'm finding that chosen does not like to be bound to an element until it is visible. I tend to do a lot of setup on render of fields that are hidden and displayed later in the same view, but chosen throws an error on 'searchfield[0]'.