Destroy/Remove selects

While developing a Single page application, I noticed there is no way to remove, or destroy a material select. I can remove the select tag, but the ul created for styling is not removed, and I couldn’t find any way to remove it with the jQuery library provided. This can become a problem as the user navigates through the application and the DOM elements don’t get removed, resulting in a memory leak.

The best way to do it is adding a overload to $.fn.material_select(), passing an argument to destroy the select. So it would be something like

$('#myselect').material_select('destroy');

Another way would be with an jQuery event, kind of like angularjs does:

$('#myselect').trigger('$destroy'); //angularjs uses the $destroy event before removing directives.

After a quick look at your code, I think I can implement either for you. Just tell me what of the options you want and I’ll fork it and implement it.

[apudiu]

I’m done with this junk framework…

[Whip]

Please keep in mind that this framework is still in beta.