Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes select boxes user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.
Chosen is a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly.
For documentation, usage, and examples, see: http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/
For downloads, see: https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/releases/
Chosen is available through Bower, npm, and Composer, however, the package names are not the same.
To install with Bower:
bower install chosen
To install with npm:
npm install chosen-js
To install with Composer:
composer require harvesthq/chosen
The compiled files for these packages are automatically generated and stored in a 2nd Chosen repository. No pull requests will be accepted to that repository.
We welcome all to participate in making Chosen the best software it can be. The repository is maintained by only a few people, but has accepted contributions from over 50 authors after reviewing hundreds of pull requests related to thousands of issues. You can help reduce the maintainers' workload (and increase your chance of having an accepted contribution to Chosen) by following the guidelines for contributing.
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Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes select boxes user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.
The npm package chosen-js receives a total of 41,292 weekly downloads. As such, chosen-js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that chosen-js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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