Jquery Chosen and knockout problems

[Voltron]

I am havng probnlems with getting Jquery chosen(http://
harvesthq.github.com/chosen/) to work with knockout.js. The normal
select works well alone, but as soon as I couple it with Chosen, the
option tags are not rendered and the select is empty, I have tried
several postions of initialization, no success,

1. Can anyone show me how I can get both to work together?
2. Is there a standard way to get styling plugins to work with KO?

Thanks

[Ragesh]

I've had better luck with select2. It includes a KO binding, too. See http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/

[Voltron]

Thanks Ragesh! :)

On Sep 4, 12:05 pm, Ragesh <rag...@rageshkrishna.com> wrote:
> I've had better luck with select2. It includes a KO binding, too. Seehttp://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/

[vladimir...@gmail.com]

You can try this solution http://jsfiddle.net/nittis/gzUtU/

[steve...@gmail.com]

I found that it works as long as you call chosen after the ko binding is complete.  For instance, in my viewmodel I have this:
                self.Users(company.Users);
                $('select').chosen(); // Chosen must be after the ko bindings or the list won't bind correctly
Now the select works with ko and chosen.  In my case this is a single-select, not sure if it would be the same for multi-select.  Thankfully it as a simple change once I figured out Chosen is what made my select quit working.

[Alpine Scrambler]

Just create a binding handler for it: http://jsfiddle.net/ericpanorel/zJaNa/

[steve...@gmail.com]

Today I discovered that sometime between Chosen version 0.9.8 and 0.9.12 the ability to use it with Knockout broke.  I updated mine today and pages that were working fine before no longer bind correctly in Knockout so the model property that the dropdown is bound to never gets updated.  At the moment I'm just going to go back to using an older version of Chosen.