Release of the Tandem Select jQuery Plugin

Craic has released an open-source jQuery plugin for tandem select menus in HTML forms.

Most of the tools and databases that we develop for our clients involve web interfaces. The JavaScript language and the jQuery library play an essential role in web development at Craic. Our work leverages the contributions of many developers in the open source community and, as part of that community, we feel that it is important to contribute to it.

Today Craic has released a new jQuery Plugin that makes it easier to create complex select menus in HTML forms.

A standard HTML multiple Select menu allows the user to select multiple options using Ctrl/Cmd-Click. But when the list of options is long, requiring the user to scroll, it becomes cumbersome and prone to errors.

An effective solution is to use two select menus in tandem, with buttons allowing options to be swapped between the two.

Tandem Select implements this as a jQuery Plugin that is simple to set up and easy to customize.

More information and demo pages for the plugin can be found HERE and the software can be downloaded from HERE.

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