jQuery reselect plugin customize your elements by adding text input to them, for accept custom text from user. Installation Include jQuery library to your page Include jquery.reselect.min.js and jquery.reselect.css Usage Apply plugin to select elements, which should customized $('.selects').reselect(); Features Small size: 1kb and ~150 bytes with gzip Change native select option. Options You can pass options to reselect call. $('.selects').reselect({ name: 'city', placeholder: 'Select city...' }); name. The name attribute of the text input, which replaced select element placeholder. Placeholder for text input Features in new versions Native autocomplete without any third-party plugins. Now, you can use autocomplete by using jQuery autocomplete plugin Auto width Support optiongroup Multiselect Navigate by key arrows Coming from your ideas...