jQuery plugin: Stylish Select Box – Unobtrusive select box replacement

By Scott Darby

I have released a new jQuery plugin that allows you to style the standard <select> form element with CSS so that it looks the same in all major browsers.

View a working demonstration.

Checkout the latest source on GitHub

The plugin is available to download from the jQuery website.

Tested and works with:
Firefox 3.0, Firefox2.0, Chrome 3, Safari 4, IE8, IE7, IE6

Why?

Because sometimes the browser default form styles look ugly with the rest of your site and <select> elements are notoriously difficult to style with CSS. You can see how wildly different <select> elements [...]

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How to build an expandable sitemap with jQuery and CSS

By Scott Darby

If you are working on a site with hundreds of pages, it’s sitemap can become huge and unmanageable, leaving you to scroll through a page of links before you find what you want (yes you could just hit ctrl+f, but that’s not the point). Computer operating systems often employ tree-view navigation to aid users in [...]

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