jquery.selectMe.js

jQuery-plugin to replace large <select> elements with a neat and searchable solution.

Features

• Search for specific elements
• Select or unselect all elements which are currently shown
• Show only selected elements
• Support for optgroups
• Navigate through elements with arrow keys (up + down)
• Select elements via space key
• Jump directly to search field when pressing a key while navigating in dropdown

Examples

To replace a select box with the default selectMe field just call:

$('select').selectMe();

A complete customizing of the selectMe field looks like this:

$('select').selectMe({
    cssFile: '../lib/jquery.selectMe.css',
    width: '100%',
    columnCount: 2,
    search: true,
    locale: 'en',
    localeResource: { 
        'en': {
            none: 'None selected',
            from: 'from',
            search: 'Search',
            selectAll: 'Select all',
            unselectAll: 'Unselect all',
            showSelected: 'Show selected',
        } 
    },
    // Callbacks
    onLoad: function( element ) {},
    onDropdownOpen: function( element ) {},
    onDropdownClose: function( element ) {},
    onSearch: function( element ) {},
    onOptionValueChanged: function( element ) {},
});

You can also override the function which generates the placeholder text:

$.fn.selectMe.getSummaryText = function(selectedOptionsArray, allOptionsCount, messageSource) {
    return 'your individual placeholder text'; // something like '1 from 10' or 'SelectedTextOne, SelectedTextTwo, ...'
}

Configuration

cssFile

Default: ../lib/jquery.selectMe.css'
Path to the css file.

width

Default: 100%
Defines the width of the selectMe field. It can be written in every possible css syntax (like 300px, 10em, 100%, etc.).

columnCount

Default: 1
How many columns should be rendered for the options?

search

Default: true
Should the search be available?

locale

Default: en
Which language should be used? The language must be defined in 'localeResource'.

localeResource

Default: english and german descriptions
Contains the descriptions for several labels of the selectMe field.
Available keys are 'none', 'from', 'search', 'selectAll', 'unselectAll' and 'showSelected'.

Download

You can download via npm

npm i jquery-selectme

Visit [https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery-selectme]