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jquery.remoteselectoptions
This plugin allows you to populate a selectbox remotely, when the user clicks or otherwise selects the box. It uses a "lazy load" method to only load the box's options when they are actually needed.
An example is if a form includes a Country selectbox, but you know the user is unlikely to need to change the country, in which case it makes sense to only have the expected country in the selectbox and load the rest only if the user clicks on the selectbox.
All that's needed is to populate the selectbox with a single option, then run .remoteselectoptions({url:'/source/of/options.html'}) on it.
