I am trying to replicate what you can see here in this image.
I want to be able to either type in the text field above the box or just click on the option directly.
What would be the best way to go about that? Is there anything bootstrap related that exists already?
This will work for most of us. The answer given by Hemanth Palle is the easiest way to do it, It worked for me and the JS code wasn't necessary. The only problem that I've found is that according to W3Schools, The datalist tag is not supported in Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions, or in Safari.
Select2 http://select2.github.io may be even better and more active than Chosen.
See this comparison: http://sitepoint.com/jquery-select-box-components-chosen-vs-select2
I went for Select2 (a few months ago) because Chosen had an issue when using Chinese characters via an IME http://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/issues/2663 It works great.
try jQuery ui autocomplete. For that check out this link
http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#combobox
This simple code worked for me
This will done by using jquery. Here is the code
Working Example Here...