A tutorial about building a script that is going to take an ordinary select element, and replace it with a better looking, markup powered version, while keeping all the functionality intact.
This is a nice animated custom select by using CSS3 and jQuery. CSS3 transitions and transforms are used to create this animated select.
Multi Column Select is a simple plugin that will hide the select control and then display a multicolumn dropdown (css). Uses the original form control so will work if JS is not enabled and the form can be processed as normal.
Flexselect is a jQuery plugin that turns regular select boxes into Quicksilver-like, flex-matching, incremental-finding controls.
Select or Die is a jQuery plugin to style/replace <select> elements.
Bootstrap Select is a custom select / multiselect for Bootstrap using button dropdown, designed to behave like regular Bootstrap selects.
Select.js is a Javascript and CSS library for creating styleable select elements. It aims to reproduce the behavior of native controls as much as is possible, while allowing for complete styling with CSS.
Selectonic is a jQuery based plugin for making any list of items selectable by mouse and keyboard. It could be usefull in web app where are different widgets like menus, dropdowns with keyboard input, lists with multiple selection and so on.
EasyDropDown is a jQuery plugin that effortlessly turns humble <select> elements into styleable drop-down menus for use in forms or general UI/navigation.
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gentleSelect is a jQuery plugin for transforming select boxes into a skinnable alternative. The selection list can be rendered with multiple columns/rows to present larger datasets in a more manageable format. It recognizes the multiple attribute on select boxes and does the right thing automatically.
FancySelect is a better select for discerning web developers everywhere and it is easy to use.
HeapBox is plugin for jQuery that replace native HTML selectboxes in your webpages. HeapBox supports themes, events, callbacks, ajax and much more.
Chained is simple jQuery plugin for chained selects. There are two different versions.
A simple and lighweight jQuery plugin for cascading dropdowns.
The plugin allows you to implement a cascading dropdown using multiple select boxes in which one select box depends on the input from one or more separate select boxes. Once one or all (depending on the configuration) required select boxes contain a value, it will trigger an event that will fire off the dependant select box so it will fetch its own list.
Bootstrap Multiselect is a JQuery based plugin to provide an intuitive user interface for using select inputs with the multiple attribute present. Instead of a select a bootstrap button will be shown as dropdown menu containing the single options as checkboxes.
