jQuery searchable dropdown plugin bug

Question

Firstly I would like to say, that i am fairly new to jQuery and javascript. I am trying to use plugin called jQuery searchable dropdown plugin ( it's source code ). Also I have tried Select2 and Chosen and I don't like them, hard to customize and buggy.

On my page, users can append new select inputs (must have feature) and that causes some visual problems with this plugin.

I created a simple demonstration (jsfiddle.Net/sf42v/), click "Add new input" several times and You can see that first select input is getting bigger and bigger.

Firstly thank You for reading this post and I would really appreciate if You could say how to solve this problem.

Demo code for posterity:

html

<button type='button' id='addItem'>Add new input</button>
<form id='inputs'>
    <div>
        <select class='selectSearch'>
            <option>Test1</option>
            <option>Test2</option>
            <option>Test3</option>
        </select>
    </div>
</form>

js

$('.selectSearch').searchable();

var container = $('#inputs');

$('#addItem').on('click', function () {
    $("<div><select class='selectSearch'><option>Test1</option><option>Test2</option><option>Test3</option></select></div>").appendTo(container);
    $('.selectSearch').searchable();
    lenght++;
});

Answer 1

You are initializing the plugin on all the selects each time you add one.

You could do something like this instead;

var container = $('#inputs');
$('#addItem').on('click', function () {
    var newSelect = $("<div><select class='selectSearch'><option>Test1</option><option>Test2</option><option>Test3</option></select></div>");
    newSelect.appendTo(container);
    newSelect.find(".selectSearch").searchable(); // only apply to the new select
});

http://jsfiddle.net/sf42V/1/