Advanced Dropdown Select With Vanilla JavaScript – js-select

A JavaScript library that converts a normal select box into a custom dropdown, with support for live search, option images, multiple select, and more.

How to use it:

1. Add the js-select’s JavaScript and Stylesheet to the page.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/select.min.css" />
<script src="./select.min.js"></script>

2. Add the following data attributes to your select element and done.

• data-replace=”jselect”: Required
• data-multiple: Enable multiple select
• data-search: Enable live search
• data-placeholder: Custom placeholder text
• data-locale: ‘en’ or ‘it’
• data-img: Path to option image
• data-desc: More descriptions about the option

<select name="example" 
        data-multiple="true" 
        data-replace="jselect" 
        data-locale="en" 
        data-search="true" 
        data-placeholder="Choose your region">
  <optgroup label="North West">
      <option value="VDA" data-img="./img/vda.png">Aosta Valley / Vallée d'Aoste</option>
      <option value="LIG" data-img="./img/lig.png">Liguria</option>
      <option value="LOM" data-img="./img/lom.png">Lombardy</option>
      <option value="PIE" data-img="./img/pie.png" data-desc="More Desc">Piedmont</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="North East">
      <option value="BOL" data-img="./img/bol.png">A.P. Bolzano / Bozen</option>
      <option value="TRE" data-img="./img/tre.png">A.P. Trento</option>
      <option value="EMR" data-img="./img/emr.png">Emilia-Romagna</option>
      <option value="FVG" data-img="./img/fvg.png">Friuli-Venezia Giulia</option>
      <option value="VEN" data-img="./img/ven.png">Veneto</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Centre">
      <option value="LAZ" data-img="./img/laz.png">Latium</option>
      <option value="MAR" data-img="./img/mar.png">Marche</option>
      <option value="TOS" data-img="./img/tos.png">Tuscany</option>
      <option value="UMB" data-img="./img/umb.png">Umbria</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="South">
      <option value="ABR" data-img="./img/abr.png">Abruzzo</option>
      <option value="PUG" data-img="./img/pug.png">Apulia</option>
      <option value="BAS" data-img="./img/bas.png">Basilicata</option>
      <option value="CAL" data-img="./img/cal.png">Calabria</option>
      <option value="CAM" data-img="./img/cam.png">Campania</option>
      <option value="MOL" data-img="./img/mol.png">Molise</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Islands">
      <option value="SAR" data-img="./img/sar.png">Sardinia</option>
      <option value="SIC" data-img="./img/sic.png">Sicily</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

Changelog:

05/15/2021

• Typos correction