themable jquery UI dropdown

Question

I am looking for a jQuery dropdown that can be themed using jQuery UI. There existed some examples at http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/branches/labs/selectmenu/index.html but these are not supported now in jQuery UI 1.8

Is there something else I can readily use or do I need to create my own?

Answer 1

Chosen and Select2 come to mind

Answer 2

The autocomplete widget has an example that uses what they call a combobox, which is essentially a themed drop down.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#combobox

You should be able to take the source provided and modify it to work with a normal <select>.