One more small update to the script this evening. The version 1.1 series includes the feature set providing keyboard support to the select. The minor revision deployed tonight added the ability to start typing the name of an option to select it. It performs a case insensitive search on the options in the list and matches to the first one that contains the string the user typed. Pressing backspace or delete will cause it to clear out the cache so you can type a different selection. I know that different browsers work slightly differently in this regard, but this is similar to how Safari works and seemed sensible to me.

Also to note is that the source code in the repo is always the latest and greatest revision, but I package release milestones for quick download from the Downloads tab on the github project page. You can get either the raw or minified version there.

http://github.com/paulelliott/jquery-spicyselect