 <p>I suggest that you still use <code>select</code> but go with Angular-UI's <code>ui-select</code>:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-select" rel="nofollow">Angular-UI ui-select</a></p> <p>It's a wrapper for and AngularJS native implementation of <a href="http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/" rel="nofollow">Select2</a></p>