UI Elements: Combo Box, Pop Out and Horizontal Slide Out Menu

Today we will show you some useful and neat UI elements that are focused on selecting content. We will be using jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style to […]

Today we will show you some useful and neat UI elements that are focused on selecting content. We will be using jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style to give the elements some edge.

The first element is going to be a select box plugin that let’s you create an auto scrolling combo box. The second element will be a popout menu that reveals its items once it’s clicked, and the third one is going to be a vertical slide out menu.

Auto Scrolling ComboBox


This plugin will transform a select element into a nice looking combo box. You just need to give an ID to the select box and call the plugin like this:

$(function() {
    $('#ui_element').scrollablecombo();
});

Popout Menu


The Popout Menu let’s you display menu options in a vertical manner. When clicked, the menu shows its items in a stack manner.

Horizontal Slide Out Menu


The horizontal slide out menu is positioned at the left hand side of the window and slides out its menu items once the arrow is clicked. The arrow bounces back once the mouse leaves and this creates a neat effect.

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Manoela Ilic

Manoela is the main tinkerer at Codrops. With a background in coding and passion for all things design, she creates web experiments and keeps frontend professionals informed about the latest trends.

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  1. Superb scripts. I really like the horizontal slide menu. Thanks for sharing!

  2. Awesome. I love the first and the last ones.
    Also, great that it works flawlessly for IE too. Always had a hard time with styling s for IE

  3. Hello Mary Lou.

    First I liked the scripts, especially the 1st model.
    Well, only that it has a problem, select the link in not working.

    Could you help me?

  4. It looks great but what is the callback function to display the selected value when it’s a link to an html page?

    Thanks

  5. Please help:

    it posts an empty string although an option has been selected.

    How to post a data?

    Thanks in advance!

  6. Hi,

    Can anyone point me to where I can get further help with these tools? I would like to:
    – Stack the Horizontal slide out menu (eg to have a column of 5 copies on top of each other)
    – Make the menu open & stay open on mouseclick (not hover) instead of closing when mouse moves away.
    – Combine this horizontal menu with the combo box one so that if you click “Menu”, then horizontal menu appears, then if you click menu item A (as listed in demo), then combo box appears with submenu items.

    I tried muddling around but unsuccessfully -I’m a complete noob trying to create a quick search/browse page to link to a database for a business case demo.

    Thank you!

  7. on scrollableCombo: very nice, but how can I access to select value?

    thanks in advance,
    Fabio

  8. Nice script once again but i have got just one problem in working with it, and that is – how do still connect link my select option to the link… because i noticed that the script just takes the val(); of the option tag and displays it in a div.

  9. The Horizontal Slide Out Menu doesn’t work in Google Chrome is there any code modification to be done.. Please help – Rakesh