smaller & nicer select with bootstrap.css

You can use the jQuery plugin bootstrap-select:

https://developer.snapappointments.com/bootstrap-select/

It will turn your select into a bootstrap button dropdown

A bit late but maybe this can help http://blog.iamjamoy.com/docs/select.html

or this http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/

The first one doesn´t work on IE, if you can fix it please provide.