jQuery UI Selectmenu

Last Updated : 18 Jan, 2021

In this article, we are going to build a select menu using jQuery UI selectmenu widgets that can provide us select options. We can use this widget to make a form for different actions.

Syntax:

$( ".selector" ).selectmenu();

Parameter: It does not accept any parameter.

Return value: It returns a selectmenu from jQuery UI.

Pre-compiled files: Please download the libraries and then use the path for the given script below.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src=”https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src=”https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example: In this example, we can see that we are going to build a simple select menu using the selectmenu widget of jQuery UI.

HTML

<!doctype html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8"> 
    <meta name="viewport" content= 
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 
  
    <link href= 
"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.16/ 
               themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"  
               rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 
  
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <script> 
        $(function () { 
            $("#title").selectmenu(); 
        }); 
    </script> 
    <style> 
        .ui-menu { 
            width: 150px; 
        } 
  
        .widget-header { 
            padding: 0.2em; 
            color: white; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h3> 
        Geeks for Geeks Selectmenu  
        Using jQuery UI 
    </h3> 
      
    <div> 
        <form action="#"> 
            <fieldset> 
                <label for="title">Select a title</label> 
                <select name="title" id="title"> 
                    <option disabled selected> 
                        Please pick one</option> 
                    <option>Python</option> 
                    <option>Java</option> 
                    <option>HTML</option> 
                    <option>C++</option> 
                    <option>Other</option> 
                </select> 
            </fieldset> 
        </form> 
    </div> 
</body> 
  
</html> 