custom-select-light

A lightweight jQuery plugin for custom select creation.

No more supported

This plugin was totally rewritten and finally custom-select has born!
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custom-select-light is no more supported.

How it works

Start with a simple select:

<select id="mySelect">
    <option value>Select...</option>
    <option value="foo">Foo</option>
    <option value="buzz">Buzz</option>
</select>

Important: Don't nest the select inside a label, use instead the for attribute in the label

With jQuery simply apply the plugin to your select:

$('#mySelect').customSelectLight();

Here's the HTML result:

<div class="cstSelContainer custom-select-container">
    <span class="cstSelOpener custom-select-opener" tabindex="0">
        <span>Select ...</span>
    </span>
    <select id="mySelect">
        <option value>Select...</option>
        <option value="foo">Foo</option>
        <option value="buzz">Buzz</option>
    </select>
    <div class="cstSelPanel custom-select-panel">
        <div class="cstSelOption custom-select-option" data-val="foo"><span>Foo</span></div>
        <div class="cstSelOption custom-select-option" data-val="buzz"><span>Buzz</span></div>
    </div>
</div>

The <select>'ll be wrapped in a div .cstSelContainer, an opener .cstSelOpener and a panel .cstSelPanel, will'be created, with the cloned options from the original <select>.

That's all! Show, hide and styles will'be managed via css.

And now have fun.

Options

panelClass

Type: string

Default: custom-select-panel

optionClass

Type: string

Default: custom-select-option

openerClass

Type: string

Default: custom-select-opener

containerClass

Type: string

Default: custom-select-container

scrollToSelected

Type: boolean

Default: true

Sometimes it is useful to skip the scroll to setted element function, to avoid some unwanted css animations behaviours, especially when the panel has an absolute position.

Methods

To use the plugin public methods:
$(selector).customSelectLight( methodName [, ...arguments])

'remove'

Argument: Array

Usage: $('#mySelect').customSelectLight('remove', ['foo', 'bazz']);

Removes the select's options that have the value provided. If no argument is given triggers the 'empty' method.

'empty'

Argument: none

Usage: $('#mySelect').customSelectLight('empty')

Removes all the select's options.

'add'

Argument: 2D Array

Usage: $('#mySelect').customSelectLight('add', [['liz','Liz'],['nut','Nut']])

Adds new options to the select.
The first element of the argument's array is the value, the second is the label