I have created a jQuery plugin to offer much more customization options to the HTML <select> tag. Specifically, I wanted to allow the user to select from a series of images as options.
My goal was to make a dynamic drop down menu based off of an existing select element. The orginal select will be hidden and notified of any changes to the new menu. This will preserve all normal post back functionality.
Here is an example
Original:
Templated:
This is a version 0.001 release and a lot more work is needed. Future releases will include better browser support and scrolling of the menu items. With this in mind, feel free to download the script here
Icons are from http://www.iconka.com/