As a weekend project I created a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create beautiful dropdown menus with keyboard navigation. You can easily create your own themes and it works seamlessly with your existing forms.Please take a look at http://jamielottering.github.com/DropKick/
It also allows images and degrades to pure select elements if necessary.
It doesn't allow for keyboard navigation (which is nice) but are there other benefits of DropKick that I'm overlooking in my quick glance?
The reason I haven't updated my select elements to these is because there are several cases on my site that a select will appear or disappear when the user engages with other parts of the site and the above code doesn't check for the visible state of the parent element. Any chance that's in your pipeline? I think it would make it more usable for modern sites (But maybe I'm the only one who frequently hides/shows select elements?).
Other than that, I like this. Thanks for putting it out there.
My goal with DropKick was to create a simple, lightweight select replacement that made designing awesome looking forms easier. I mostly want to keep it simple and light, but I like your idea. I'm currently hoping to add more interaction with DropKick such as changing the open/close animation or getting notified when the template renders.
I really like the style. One thing to note: Whenever I encounter a select your state dropdown, I select it and type the first few letters of my state. Please consider implementing this functionality. Awesome work otherwise.
I really like these, the only problem I've found is that in IE9 the gloss themes don't work. The dropdown appears but is empty. (I can get you a screen shot if you like)
Works well in every other browser/version I tried though.
I've heard a couple reports about issues in IE9, I've been trying to install it on my windows machine but I've been having trouble. I'll keep trying and get it fixed for IE9
It also allows images and degrades to pure select elements if necessary.
It doesn't allow for keyboard navigation (which is nice) but are there other benefits of DropKick that I'm overlooking in my quick glance?
The reason I haven't updated my select elements to these is because there are several cases on my site that a select will appear or disappear when the user engages with other parts of the site and the above code doesn't check for the visible state of the parent element. Any chance that's in your pipeline? I think it would make it more usable for modern sites (But maybe I'm the only one who frequently hides/shows select elements?).
Other than that, I like this. Thanks for putting it out there.