We should pick a better select UI component.

We need it to clean up the long list of categories at Make a wish

Related thread:
http://tiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=46011

Criteria:

• Must work for mobile and touch
• Future-proof
• jQuery
• Styleable using Themeroller

Options

• https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=select2&project_1=chosen&submit_2=Go
• https://code.google.com/p/dropdown-check-list/
• http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/
  • https://github.com/blog/1359-the-octoverse-in-2012
• http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/
• http://www.jquery4u.com/plugins/10-jquery-selectboxdrop-down-plugins/
• http://quasipartikel.at/multiselect_next/
• http://loudev.com/
• http://www.std42.ru/jquery-multiselect/

Proposals

Chosen JS

Proposal by luci
"Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors."
Demo

Pros and Cons

Select2

Suggested by mlaporte
"Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results. Look and feel of Select2 is based on the excellent Chosen library."
Demo

Pros and Cons

Issues

• Could we fork it and change the license ?

Conclusions

All the other options do not support single select/multi select or aren't that user friendly and/or flexible and usually they take double space of common multiselect. —