Selecto Dropdown: Select replacement with only pure Javascript

Description

This lightweight plugin replaces original html select tag with Selecto dropdown.

Features

• Replaces original html select tag with Selecto dropdown
• Supports images
• Supports multiple selectboxes
• No jQuery or other dependencies
• Easy to use
• Css is easy to customize
• Tested in IE9 and above, Firefox 3-4, recent WebKit browsers, and Opera

Demo

Link

Install

Bower

npm install westag-selecto

npm

npm install westag-selecto

Usage

Install via npm(see above) or Download/clone the files

Link to JS file ex.:

<script src="js/selecto.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Link to css file ex.:

<link href="css/selecto.css" rel="stylesheet"> 

Original dropdown you want to replace with Selecto's.

<select id="select">
    <option value="">Choose color</option>
    <option value="purple">Purple</option>
    <option value="blue">Blue</option>
    <option value="yellow">Yellow</option>
    <option value="green">Green</option>
</select>

// support for images
<select class="countries" name="countries">
    <option value="">Choose country</option>
    <option data-class="au" value="australie">Australie</option>
    <option data-class="cn" value="engeland">China</option>
    <option data-class="at" value="austria" selected="selected">Austria</option>
    <option data-class="jp" value="japan">Japan</option>
    <option data-class="de" value="germany">Germany</option>
</select>

To initialize Selecto:

// simple basic dropdown
var dropdown1 = new Selecto('#select');

// with custom width and height
var dropdown2 = new Selecto('#select', {
    height: 50,
    width: 30
});

// dropdown with images
 var dropdown3 = new Selecto('.countries', {
    width: 250,
    height: '40',
    renderFunction: myRender,
    renderSelect: mySelect
});

// add images to items
function myRender(country) {
    var template, cssClass;

    cssClass = country.getAttribute('data-class');
    template = cssClass ? '<span class="color ' + cssClass + '"></span>' + country.textContent : country.textContent;

    return template;
}

// add selected item image to button
function mySelect(country) {
    var template,
      cssClass = country.getAttribute('data-class');

    template = cssClass ? '<span class="color ' + cssClass + '"></span>' + country.textContent : country.textContent;

    return template;
}

Methods

Method	Description
.addValue()	change value
.getValue()	get the selected value

Usage

var dropdown = new Selecto('#select');

// set value
dropdown.addValue('blue');

// get the selected value
dropdown.getValue();

Events

Method	Description
change	change value

Usage

var dropdown = new Selecto('#select',
  {
      onChange: changing
  });

function changing(option) {
    alert('testing');
}