This improves the speeds of creating the `<option>` tags for array
data. By creating the HTML ahead of time and putting it into an
`<option>` element before passing it to jQuery, it cuts down on the
time it takes for jQuery to process the HTML string and convert it
into DOM elements. This proved to be incredibly slow.
This also changes the `item` function to return early when the
data exists. The `$e.data` call has also been switched to a
`$.data` call, which doesn't need to check the DOM to see if the
data attributes already exist. This cuts down on a bit of wasted
time, as the `data` key should never be present in the DOM, and it
should be ignored if it is.
We should only be checking the option values that matter, such as
`id` and `text`, instead of checking all of the option values. This
will prevent unexpected breaking when new properties are added to
the options.
Existing properties should be covered by tests to avoid regressions.
We have to enforce ids being strings as the values of options within
a select will always be an id. This fixes an issue that we had with
array selections not being highlighted in the results.
