A simple dropdown component for backbone, draws a list of options from a collection and triggers an event when one is selected. This is an alternative to Chosen with minimal styling so you can make it look however you want.

The API is built for Backbone developers and means you don’t need to shoehorn your data into a <select> field.

var dropdown = new Backbone.Dropdown({
    // A Backbone collection of models
    collection: my_collection,

    // The field in the model you want to use as the title, defaults to 'title'
    title_field: 'name'
});

$('.my-container').append(dropdown.render().$el);

dropdown.on('select', function(model) {
    // The model that was selected
});

Use the css in dropdown.css as a starting point to customise this menu to your hearts content.

Copyright (C) 2013 Pete Hawkins

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