Script: Chosen

Chosen is a jQuery plugin for custom styling simple and multiple drop-down selects, along with optgroups.

From the dawn of modern-day web development, custom styling form fields has been a real nightmare. While some form fields are simpler to customize than others, drop-down selects are the worse.

Targeting this need for a simpler process, the good folks at Harvest have created Chosen, a jQuery plugin that not only simplifies the process of custom styling the drop-downs, but actually enhances it through some well-thought JavaScript.

With just a few lines of JS code, a previously stale form is transformed into a designer's UI heaven, actually adding to the user experience some new useful navigational features and enhancements.

Chosen's development is handled via its GitHub page. Besides jQuery, Chosen is also compatible with Prototype.  A version ported to MooTools is also available for download.

Download Chosen here.

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