SimplytheBest Select Scripts

The simply the best collection of select scripts

Select2 By: Igor Vaynberg
Free Apache2+GPL

A jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, sorting, tagging, remote data sets, auto tokenization, drag and drop sorting and infinite scrolling of results.

To extract a random record from f.e. a MySQL table you can use this sample PHP code to get you going. The snippet uses rand() to generate a random number and LIMIT to select the record from the SQL table.

Enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, leveraging searching and filtering.

JEIP is a jQuery plugin to enable editing in place for input, textarea and select elements.

Selectize By: Brian Reavis
Free Apache2

The hybrid of a textbox and a select box. It's jQuery based and useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on. Comes with LESS stylesheets and shims for Bootstrap. Remote data loading.

Chosen By: Harvest
Free MIT

A jQuery plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.

A jQuery-based plugin for Twitter Bootstrap used to style select file fields of forms.

Bootstrap Multiselect By: David Stutz
Free Apache2/BSD3

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.