Filter drop-down options w/ jQuery
<p>I have a long list of options in <code>&lt;SELECT&gt;</code>.</p>

<p>I need a simple way to filter the options as I type letters. I'd like to do it with jQuery, if possible. I looked at a number of plugins but they all appear to be too complicated. Even jQuery UI's AUTOCOMPLETE. I don't want to style anything, just simple HTML enhanced with jQuery.</p>

<p>I'm sure someone already has done something like this. Any nudge in the right direction would be highly appreciated.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;select id="mySelector"&gt;
    &lt;option value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="ActionScript"&gt;ActionScript&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="AppleScript"&gt;AppleScript&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Asp"&gt;Asp&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="BASIC"&gt;BASIC&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="C"&gt;C&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="C++"&gt;C++&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Clojure"&gt;Clojure&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="COBOL"&gt;COBOL&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="ColdFusion"&gt;ColdFusion&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Erlang"&gt;Erlang&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Fortran"&gt;Fortran&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Groovy"&gt;Groovy&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Haskell"&gt;Haskell&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Java"&gt;Java&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="JavaScript"&gt;JavaScript&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Lisp"&gt;Lisp&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Perl"&gt;Perl&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="PHP"&gt;PHP&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Python"&gt;Python&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Ruby"&gt;Ruby&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Scala"&gt;Scala&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="Scheme"&gt;Scheme&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>
