#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 (3,5KB minified and less than 2KB minified/gzip)
• Options box always stay visible
• Doesn't rely on external libraries (besides jQuery)
• Word search works with western latin characters set (e.g.: á, ñ, ç...)

###Demo

##How to use:

Make sure to include jQuery in your page:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Include jQuery Selectric:

<script src="js/jquery.selectric.min.js"></script>

Put styles in your CSS and change it to your taste :D

/*======================================================================
	Selectric
======================================================================*/
.selectricWrapper { position: relative; margin: 0 0 10px; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; }
.selectricDisabled { filter: alpha(opacity=50); opacity: 0.5; cursor: default; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none; }
.selectricOpen { z-index: 9999; }
.selectricHideSelect { position: relative; overflow: hidden; }
.selectricHideSelect select { position: absolute; left: -100%; }
.selectric { border: 1px solid #DDD; background: #F8F8F8; position: relative; border-radius: 2px; }
.selectricOpen .selectric { border-color: #CCC; background: #F0F0F0; z-index: 9999; }
.selectric .label { display: block; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; margin: 0 30px 0 0; padding: 6px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; color: #444; }
.selectric .button { position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; height: 30px; width: 30px; color: #BBB; text-align: center; font: normal 18px/30px sans-serif; }
.selectricHover .selectric { border-color: #CCC; }
.selectricHover .selectric .button { color: #888; }
.selectricTempShow { position: absolute !important; visibility: hidden !important; display: block !important; }

/* Items box */
.selectricItems { display: none; position: absolute; overflow: auto; top: 100%; left: 0; background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px solid #CCC; z-index: 9998; box-shadow: 0 0 10px -6px; /* margin: -1px 0; */ }
.selectricItems ul,
.selectricItems li { list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; min-height: 20px; line-height: 20px; font-size: 12px; }
.selectricOpen .selectricItems { display: block; }
.selectricItems li { padding: 5px; cursor: pointer; display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE; color: #666; border-top: 1px solid #FFF; }
.selectricItems li.selected { background: #EFEFEF; color: #444; border-top-color: #E0E0E0; }
.selectricItems li:hover { background: #F0F0F0; color: #444; }
.selectricItems li.disabled { background: #F5F5F5; color: #BBB; border-top-color: #FAFAFA; }

Initialize jQuery Selectric:

<script>
$(function(){
	$('select').selectric();
});
</script>

##Options:

Option	Default	Type	Description
onOpen	function() {}	Function	Function called when select options is opened
onClose	function() {}	Function	Function called when select options is closed
maxHeight	300	Integer	Maximum height options box can be
keySearchTimeout	500	Integer	After this time without pressing any key, the search string is reseted
arrowButtonMarkup	<b class="button">&#9662;</b>	String [HTML]	Markup for open options button
disableOnMobile	true	Boolean	Initialize plugin on mobile browsers
border	1	Integer	Options box border thickness
openOnHover	false	Boolean	Open select box on hover, instead of click
expandToItemText	false	Boolean	Expand options box past wrapper

##Public methods:

$('select').selectric('refresh'); // Reconstruct the instance of plugin
$('select').selectric('destroy'); // Destroy Selectric and go back to normal
$('select').selectric('open'); // Open options
$('select').selectric('close'); // Close options

##Browser support:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari
• Internet Explorer 7+
• Opera