ComboBox widget
ComboBox widget
Hi all,
I've written a JQuery combobox plugin based on JQuery UI
infrastructure. While not an official UI plugin, I've tried to adhere
to JQuery UI coding conventions, infrastructure (basing it off
ui.core.js), method invocation, and event handlers (include enable/
disable/destroy/setData/remove).
http://jonathan.tang.name/code/jquery_combobox
Features include:
* Can either select from provided list or input your own entry, like a
true combobox
* Keyboard sensitive to standard combobox keybindings.
* Event handlers for keypress, change, and select
* Stylable either by CSS or by replacing the generated HTML
* Should be i18n-friendly: many existing combobox plugins use a select
element that's dynamically updated by keyboard events, which doesn't
work if your keys don't correspond to English letters. This uses a
text field with the menu faked by a series of spans.
* Unobtrusive; seamlessly copies the name/id/class attributes from the
element being replaced over to the combobox text field. Similarly,
calling 'destroy' will restore the original element.
What this is not: an autocomplete plugin. There's already a perfectly
good UI widget for this, and so this makes no effort to hide parts of
the selection menu or work through AJAX. It's intended as a UI widget
for relatively small lists of items, where the user may also add their
own selection.
Enjoy,
Jonathan