Drop Down Menu/Text Field in one

Question

I\'m working on building new site, and I need a drop down menu to select the amount of something in my site. But at the same time I need this drop down list to accept text.

Answer 1

I like jQuery Token input. Actually prefer the UI over some of the other options mentioned above.

http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/

Also see: http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields for an explanation