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components/chosen
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Chosen is a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more friendly.

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Chosen
======

[](#chosen)

Chosen is a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly.

- jQuery support: 1.7+
- Prototype support: 1.7+

For **documentation**, usage, and examples, see:

For **downloads**, see:

### Package managers

[](#package-managers)

Chosen is available through [Bower](https://bower.io/) and [npm](https://www.npmjs.com), *however, the package names are not the same*.

To install with Bower:

```
bower install chosen

```

To install with npm:

```
npm install chosen-js

```

The compiled files for these packages are automatically generated and stored in a [2nd Chosen repository](https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen-package). No pull requests will be accepted to that repository.

### Contributing to this project

[](#contributing-to-this-project)

We welcome all to participate in making Chosen the best software it can be. The repository is maintained by only a few people, but has accepted contributions from over 50 authors after reviewing hundreds of pull requests related to thousands of issues. You can help reduce the maintainers' workload (and increase your chance of having an accepted contribution to Chosen) by following the [guidelines for contributing](contributing.md).

- [Bug reports](contributing.md#bugs)
- [Feature requests](contributing.md#features)
- [Pull requests](contributing.md#pull-requests)

### Chosen Credits

[](#chosen-credits)

- Concept and development by [Patrick Filler](http://patrickfiller.com) for [Harvest](http://getharvest.com/).
- Design and CSS by [Matthew Lettini](http://matthewlettini.com/)
- Repository maintained by [@pfiller](http://github.com/pfiller), [@kenearley](http://github.com/kenearley), [@stof](http://github.com/stof), [@koenpunt](http://github.com/koenpunt), and [@tjschuck](http://github.com/tjschuck).
- Chosen includes [contributions by many fine folks](https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/contributors).

###  Health Score

49

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance62

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 71.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~2679 days

Total

2

Last Release

454d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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