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Make multiselect selected elements appear outside textbox

Right now I am using the jQuery plugin Chosen (https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/)
The multiselect option is exactly what I want to achieve, but I'd like if the selected elements appeared outside of the textbox instead of inline the others. Any quick solutions? Or should I be looking at a custom coded attempt?

A bit brute but might be effective. Add your own chosen().change() event handler (as per their docs) to the texbox and simply move the <li> elements from the textbox to wherever you like. So something along the lines of:
$("#form_field").chosen().change(
// detach from source and append to destination
);

Chosen jQuery framework select option from dropdown with Javascript

I'm using the Chosen jQuery framework with a basic select statement.
I use the following line of code to open the dropdown:
$('#<id-of-your-select>_chzn').trigger('mousedown');
That statement opens the Chosen dropdown.
Then I want to select the top item which is a li element with the id: pt_chzn_o_1.
I've tried the following, but none of them will select the option.
$('#pt_chzn_o_1').trigger('mousedown');
$('#pt_chzn_o_1').click();
How do you select an option using Javascript/jQuery as if I clicked the top option with my mouse.

Why don't you just change the selected index instead? It seems like you are trying to achieve the same thing but go about it in the "human way" as oppose to the "programming way", like so:
$('#<id-of-your-select>').val('value-of-pt_chzn_o_1').trigger('chosen:updated');
Make sure to change both the jQuery selector and the value to match your circumstances.

This is what ended up working for me:
The initial click triggers an event to show additional fields(optional, only needed in my specific case).
$("#<id-of-your-select>_chzn").trigger("click")
This statement opens the Chosen dropdown:
$("#<id-of-your-select>_chzn").trigger("mousedown")
Execute this statement on the li element id of the chosen dropdown element you want to choose.
$("#pt_chzn_o_1").trigger("mouseup")

Drop-down box and buttons like in gmail

How to do this effects for <option> and <button> with CSS and JS?

It's not real <select> or <button> element. The real form element would be (if it was a form element at the beginning) replaced with simple styled <ul> (one of the options). And javascript is used to hide select element, replace it with list and attach events to list items / anchors.
Edit: Gmail apparentyl doesn't use list, but divs. That's also an option.. logic behind it is still same.

Try this. You have to change images and colors.

Create editable new rows to a table

I'm trying to add details to a database by using ajax and table dynamic rows.
e.g.
----
{Customer: dropdown menu} | {Description: textarea} | delete
Add New Customer
---
When the user clicks it shows the drop down menu of all available customers. when you click away it just shows the select customer name (not the dropdown menu)
Similarly with the description i want on click to allow them to edit the description of the text area but when you click away it only shows the text you just entered. (not the text area outline)
Add new customer button creates a new empty row.
What libraries or examples can help me get started with this?
I saw this recently in an application recently. In this application it was possible to add new items/rows via ajax and dynamic HTML.

You should be able to do that easily enough using jQuery (look at the selectors, events & manipulation in their docs). For example, for the dropdown
<span id="customer-name"></span>
<select name="customer-list" id="customer-list">
<option class="name" value="cust-1">Frank Frankson</option>
<option class="name" value="cust-2">John Johnson</option>
</select>
And the jQuery :
$('.name').click(function(){
$('#customer-name').text($(this).text());
$('#customer-list').hide();
});
In that function you could do something with the option element value if needed (an ajax post or whatever).
The principal for changing the Text Area description would be the same (you could grab the text out of the textarea, add it to a div & hide the textarea; if they need to edit again, just show the textarea & hide the div)

Use jQuery.
Use the tokenizing autocomplete plugin for jQuery
For the inplace edit use Jeditable.
I'd stay away from drop downs, they are almost always bad design, whether in a menu or selecting from a long list of options. For something like a list of customers which is hopefully likely to be long it is an awful choice of a UI component.
The only time that it really makes sense to use a drop down is when the list of options is short and well known. So for it to be acceptable it probably has to be a list of options which rarely if ever changes, is less than 10 or so items long, and is used frequently (so it is well known). Drop downs are painful.

Most sites where you see such functionality accomplish it with styling - you can style a text input box to look like plain text (by removing the border and setting the background color to transparent). When the input is clicked on (focused), the style changes:
<style>
.blurredText { border: none; background-color: transparent; }
</style>
. . .
<input type="text" class="blurredText" value="Click me to edit"
onfocus="this.className=''"
onblur="this.className='blurredText'"/>
Styling a select the same way may prove difficult however, since select controls are notoriously resistant to CSS. You can still use the method Dave proposed.

Input Box Option Drop Down

I'm looking at creating something like this:
http://konigi.com/interface/kontain-search
alt text http://s3.amazonaws.com/konigi/interface/kontain-search-2.png
I don't suppose anyone has any resources which could guide me? I know I'm not giving much information but I wouldn't know where to start looking.
Cheers!
EDIT Sorry, I meant just the drop down / input box, nothing else on that site.
EDIT AGAIN The drop down list is inside of the input box, hence why I was wondering.

It may be something similar to these examples but with only one main item. and manipulate with jquery each "li" and that action taken
example 1 |
example 2 |
example 3 |
example 4
edition answer: this is done with css.
is all contained in a div -> input + menu.
for the input is removed border styles and background color is the same as the container div.

Well, you put part of the search form in a hidden div and pop it up when the user clicks or hovers on some other element, either inside or outside the form. Use CSS as needed to position the div. Not really sure what problems you could possibly have with something like this.
Maybe you can be more specific and break this problem down in several more focused questions?

I did not drill into the site, but from a logical standpoint, perhaps the search box AND the dropdown are "inside" another element (div?) that forms the complex control...and just formated(CSS)/actions(jQuery) placed on those.
<div id="searchDiv">
<div id="searchText"></div>
<div id="searchDropdown"></div>
<div id="searchButton"><div>
</div>
Easy enough to set somthing like that up.

I think what's going on there isn't that the dropdown is inside an input box, but rather that the input box chrome is hidden and it's placed inside an input-looking div along with the dropdown.