asmSelect is a jQuery plugin providing progressive enhancement to select multiple form elements. It provides a simpler alternative with several advantages. This new version includes several fixes and enhancements. Read more about asmSelect at the asmSelect project site

Changes in 1.0.4

Fixed issue that interfered with multiple asmSelects on the same page. This also solves an issue with dynamically rendered (ajax) asmSelects on 1 page.

Changed options so that “animate” and “highlight” now default to “false”. These are just a bit too slow on older computers, so I thought it would be better not to make them active defaults.

Added code that triggers a change() event on the original select multiple whenever a change is made on the asmSelect. This means that other bits of javascript don’t need to know about asmSelect if they happen to be monitoring the original select multiple for changes.

Added some additional logic for dealing with IE and determining whether a click preceded an item being added to the list. This was necessary because IE triggers change events when you are scrolling around in a select. Thankfully not an issue with other browsers.

Added “optionDisabledClass” in program options. This is a class assigned to items that are disabled. This was necessary because only Safari allows the “disabled” attribute with option tags (as far as I can tell). This is mostly for internal use with asmSelect, so you can ignore this unless you want to come up with your own styles for disabled option items.

Added logic to detect Opera and force a redraw of the html list when original select is modified. Previously, opera would not draw the new list items… They were in the DOM, just not on Opera’s screen.

Updated documentation with note about the Firefox autocomplete issue, which can be a factor on some asmSelect implementations