jQuery MultiSelect UI Widget

MultiSelect enhances an ordinary multiple select control into an elegant drop-down list of checkboxes.

The widget is stylable via jQuery UI ThemeRoller.

Features:

• Basic
• Open/Close Animations
• Callbacks & Events
• Customize the Header
• Using selectedText/selectedList
• Max Checked
• Pre-selected/disabled Options
• Single Select
• Enable/Disable
• Using the Refresh Method
• Using the Position Utility
• Filter Plugin

What is new in this release:

• Fixed:
• jQuery 1.8 compatibility.
• Made sure the widget doesn't spit out duplicate IDs.
• Select boxes with a single option work properly now.
• Speed improvements.
• Added:
• getButton() method.
• List items now inherit the classes from their option/optgroups.
• Japanese translation.
• Italian translation.
• Turkish translation.
• French translation.

What is new in version 1.12:

• Fixed:
• Append the widget menu to the body rather than directly after the button.
• optgroups disappeared when refresh() was called on a closed widget.
• Use the span element's nodeValue rather than the title attribute in selectedList.
• Keep focus on the inputs as much as possible as to not break the Esc key.
• Do not alter selected attributes at all - just properties.
• Other minor bug fixes & perf enhancements.
• Added:
• Filter: option to automatically clear the last search on widget close.
• MIT license file.

What is new in version 1.11:

• Fixed:
• set/remove the "selected" attribute on option tags instead of just the property.
• Filter widget: do not exclude options with empty values (#105).
• Added:
• Allow options to display tooltips.
• Fire the select box's change event when checkbox/radio inputs are changed.
• Started unit tests for the filter widget.
• Chinese translation.
• German translation.
• Czech translation.
• License file.

What is new in version 1.10:

• Fixed: full support for jQuery 1.6+.
• Fixed: invalid unit tests.
• Fixed: all inputs with no values.
• Fixed: make sure the button inherits the original tab index.
• Fixed: incorrect items sent to the server after filtering, checking all, then submitting the form.
• Fixed: make sure the menu is closed before triggering the close event.
• Fixed: in single select mode with the filter widget, make sure only the radio buttons are hidden, not the text input as well.
• Fixed: make sure the escape key doesn't accidently abort any active xhrs in FF.
• Modified: refactored create logic to use native JS instead of jQuery. Menus will build much faster now, especially in IE.
• Added: beforeoptgrouptoggle event.

What is new in version 1.9:

• Added: auto-close single select menus when an item is chosen.
• Added: if the optgrouptoggle handler returns false, prevent the items from being selected.
• Added: namespaced all events.
• Added: brazilian and spanish localizations (thanks Vinicius).
• Fixed: when an item is chosen via the enter key, the underlying option tag wasn't being selected properly (thanks zlamma).
• Fixed: refactored redundant close logic when clicking on the document to close the widget (thanks zlamma).
• Modified: hide option tags in single selects, and add the ui-state-active class instead.

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side
• jQuery 1.4.2 or higher
• jQuery UI 1.8 or higher