Chosen + Templating

Templates add the ability to fully customize the contents of select boxes. Add Picturs for example. Go crazy.

Examples: http://thomasf1.github.com/chosen-with-templates/

Extending Chosen, a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly.

• jQuery support: 1.4+
• Prototype support: 1.7+

For Chosen documentation, usage, and examples, see:
http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen

Contributing to Chosen

Contributions and pull requests are very welcome. Please follow these guidelines when submitting new code.

1. Make all changes in Coffeescript files, not JavaScript files.
2. For feature changes, update both jQuery and Prototype versions
3. Use npm install -d to install the correct development dependencies.
4. Use cake build or cake watch to generate Chosen's JavaScript file and minified version.
5. Don't touch the VERSION file
6. Submit a Pull Request using GitHub.

Using CoffeeScript & Cake

First, make sure you have the proper CoffeeScript / Cake set-up in place. We have added a package.json that makes this easy:

npm install -d

This will install coffee-script and uglifyjs.

Once you're configured, building the JavasScript from the command line is easy:

cake build                # build Chosen from source
cake watch                # watch coffee/ for changes and build Chosen

If you're interested, you can find the recipes in Cakefile.

Chosen Credits

• Built by Harvest.
• Concept and development by Patrick Filler
• Design and CSS by Matthew Lettini

Notable Forks

• Chosen for MooTools, by Jules Janssen
• Chosen Drupal 7 Module, by Pol Dell'Aiera, Arshad Chummun, Bart Feenstra, Kálmán Hosszu, etc.
• Chosen CakePHP Plugin, by Paul Redmond