Chosen is a sweet JavaScript plugin that will transform your select boxes into a piece of functional beauty.
Chosen can be used as:
- Standard Select
- Multiple Select
- <optgroup> Support
- Selected and Disabled Support
Here are 3 reasons you should use Chosen:
- User Friendly
Stop forcing users to scroll through a giant list of items, when they can just type the name of the item they were looking for. Non-matching entries are removed and choices can be selected using enter or a mouse click. - Progressive Enhancement
Chosen replaces normal HTML select fields, so you no longer need to do anything special to make it work for browsers without JavaScript. You also don’t need any special back end to handle the data either. The form field still gets submitted as normal. - Painless Setup
Add Chosen’s files to your app and trigger the plugin. Chosen automatically respects optgroups, selected state, the multiple attribute and browser tab order. All you need to do is customize the style as you see fit.
Learn more about Chosen, download it, and give it a try, on the Chosen website.
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Charles Cherry says
THANKS! That is exactly what I’ve been looking for!
Eric Dye says
Glad to hear it!