Convert .select elements to Bootstrap Dropdown Group

select2dropdown.js

/*!
 * Convert .select elements to Bootstrap Dropdown Group
 * Assumes jQuery and Bootstrap scripts already linked
 *
 * Expected markup:
 *
 *   <div id="someId" data-name="someName" class="select someClass">
 *     <div class="option selected" data-value="1"> Item 1 <i class="icon-ok"></i></div>
 *     <div class="option" data-value="2"> Item 2 <span>some html</span></div>
 *     <div class="option" data-value="3"> Item 3 <img src="little.img"></div>
 *   </div>
 *
 * Author: John Rocela 2012 <me@iamjamoy.com>
 * From: http://blog.iamjamoy.com/convert-select-boxes-to-a-fancy-html-dropdown
 *
 * Inspired by updates from Colin Faulkingham (https://gist.github.com/2320588)
 *                      and Frank Basti (http://jsfiddle.net/xuAQv/13)
 *
 * Modified: Ivan Novikov (http://github.com/NIA), Dec 2012
 * Changed: use classes on divs instead of select/option tags,
 *          thus allow arbitrary html inside options,
 *          propagate original element classes to buttons,
 *          fixed IE compatibility and rounded corners of first .btn,
 *          avoid using javascript: pseudo-protocol
 */
jQuery(function($){
    $('.select').each(function(i, e){
        if (!($(e).data('convert') == 'no')) {
            $(e).hide().removeClass('select');
            var current = $(e).find('.option.selected').html() || '&nbsp;';
            var val   =   $(e).find('.option.selected').data('value');
            var name  =   $(e).data('name') || '';

            $(e).parent().append('<div class="btn-group" id="select-group-' + i + '" />');
            var select = $('#select-group-' + i);
            select.html('<a class="btn ' + $(e).attr('class') + '" type="button">' + current + '</a><a class="btn dropdown-toggle ' + $(e).attr('class') + '" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#"><span class="caret"></span></a><ul class="dropdown-menu"></ul><input type="hidden" value="' + val + '" name="' + name + '" id="' + $(e).attr('id') + '" class="' + $(e).attr('class') + '" />');
            $(e).find('.option').each(function(o,q) {
                select.find('.dropdown-menu').append('<li><a href="#" data-value="' + $(q).data('value') + '">' + $(q).html() + '</a></li>');
            });
            select.find('.dropdown-menu a').click(function(e) {
                select.find('input[type=hidden]').val($(this).data('value')).change();
                select.find('.btn:eq(0)').html($(this).html());
                e.preventDefault();
            });
            $(e).remove();
        }
    });
});