jQuery Selectric
jQuery Selectric is a jQuery plugin designed to help at stylizing and manipulating HTML selects.
- Keyboard navigation (Up/Down/Left/Right/Word search)
- Easily customizable
- Pretty lightweight
- Options box always stay visible
- Doesn't rely on external libraries (besides jQuery)
- Word search works with western latin characters set (for example: á, ñ, ç...)
Demo
How to use:
Make sure to include jQuery in your page:
Include jQuery Selectric:
Include jQuery Selectric styles, and change it to your taste :D (please refer to our demo page for more themes and other customizations)
Initialize jQuery Selectric:
Options:
You can pass an options object as the first parameter when you call the plugin. For example:
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/* * Type: Function * Description: Function called before plugin initialize */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called plugin has been fully initialized */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called before select options opens */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called after select options opens */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called before select options closes */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called after select options closes */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called before select options change */ {} /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called when select options change */ { ; } /* * Type: Function * Description: Function called when the Selectric is refreshed */ {} /* * Type: Integer * Description: Maximum height options box can be */ maxHeight: 300 /* * Type: Integer * Description: After this time without pressing * any key, the search string is reset */ keySearchTimeout: 500 /* * Type: String [HTML] * Description: Markup for open options button */ arrowButtonMarkup: '<b class="button">&#x25be;</b>' /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Initialize plugin on mobile browsers */ disableOnMobile: false /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Open select box on hover, instead of click */ openOnHover: false /* * Type: Integer * Description: Timeout to close options box after mouse leave plugin area */ hoverIntentTimeout: 500 /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Expand options box past wrapper */ expandToItemText: false /* * Type: Boolean * Description: The select element become responsive */ responsive: false /* * Type: Object * Description: Customize classes. */ customClass: prefix: 'selectric' // Type: String. Description: Prefixed string of every class name. camelCase: false // Type: Boolean. Description: Switch classes style between camelCase or dash-case. /* * Type: String or Function * Description: Define how each option should be rendered inside its <li> element. * * If it's a string, all keys wrapped in brackets will be replaced by * the respective values in itemData. Available keys are: * 'value', 'text', 'slug', 'index'. * * If it's a function, it will be called with the following parameter: * (itemData). The function must return a string. If available all keys * will be replaced by the respective values in itemData. * * itemData<Object> { * className // Type: String. Description: option class names. * disabled // Type: Boolean. Description: option is disabled true/false * selected // Type: Boolean. Description: option is selected true/false * element // Type: HTMLDomElement. Description: current select element * index // Type: Number. Description: current option index * slug // Type: String. Description: option slug * text // Type: String. Description: option text * value // Type: String. Description: option value * } * * EXAMPLE: * * function(itemData) { * return '{text}'; * } * * // you're free to build and return your own strings * function(itemData) { * return itemData.text + '(' + itemData.index + ')'; * } */ optionsItemBuilder: '{text}' /* * Type: String or Function * Description: Define how each select label should be rendered. Allows HTML. * * If it's a string, all keys wrapped in brackets will be replaced by * the respective values in currItem. Available keys are: * 'value', 'text', 'slug', 'disabled'. * * If it's a function, it will be called with the following parameters: * (currItem). The function must return a string, no keys will be * replaced in this method. */ labelBuilder: '{text}' /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Prevent scroll on window when using mouse wheel inside options box * to match common browsers behavior. */ preventWindowScroll: true /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Inherit width from original element */ inheritOriginalWidth: false /* * Type: Boolean * Description: call stopProgation on onOpen click event */ stopPropagation: true /* * Type: Boolean * Description: Determine if current selected option should jump to * first (or last) once reach the end (or start) item of list upon * keyboard arrow navigation. */ allowWrap: true /* * Type: Boolean * Description: By default the options box gets opened above if it's outside the window. * In case this auto detection doesn't work as expected (e.g. in transform/relative scopes) * you may force opening above. */ forceRenderAbove: false /* * Type: Boolean * Description: In some cases the options box gets opened above even though the desired behavior would be below. * If the auto dectection doesn't work as expected you may force opening below. */ forceRenderBelow: false /* * Type: Object * Description: Customize select "multiple" behavior */ multiple: separator: ', ' // Type: String. Description: Items separator. keepMenuOpen: true // Type: Boolean. Description: Close after an item is selected. maxLabelEntries: false // Type: Boolean or Integer. Description: Max selected items do show.
Events:
All events are called on original element, first argument is the original element too. And can be bound like this:
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eventname
can be one of the following:
Event name | Description |
selectric-before-init |
Fired before plugin initialize |
selectric-init |
Fired plugin has been fully initialized |
selectric-before-open |
Fired before select options opens |
selectric-open |
Fired after select options opens |
selectric-before-close |
Fired before select options closes |
selectric-close |
Fired after select options closes |
selectric-before-highlight |
Fired before a select option is highlighted |
selectric-highlight |
Fired when a select option is highlighted |
selectric-before-select |
Fired before a select option is selected |
selectric-select |
Fired before a select option is selected |
selectric-before-change |
Fired before select options change |
selectric-change |
Fired when select options change |
selectric-refresh |
Fired when the Selectric is refreshed |
Public methods:
var Selectric = data'selectric'; Selectric; // Open optionsSelectric; // Close optionsSelectric; // Destroy select and go back to normalSelectric; // Reconstruct the plugin options boxSelectric; // Reinitialize the plugin // Or...; // Open options; // Close options; // Destroy select and go back to normal; // Reconstruct the plugin options box; // Reinitialize the plugin
Browser support:
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Internet Explorer 7+
- Opera