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I have no idea why this is happening. I have some very straightforward code, replicated below, which works fine in all browsers except for IE 7 & 8. In those browsers, trying to expand the list of options in the select triggers the built-in Pop-up blocker bar.

What gives?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
<head>
 <title>
  Test
 </title>
</head>
<body>
 <form action="/dynamic/main.4d?Support&amp;demo2004_01&amp;RD" method="post" id="signup" name="signup">
  <fieldset id="selects">
   <select name="bedrooms">
    <option selected="selected" value="">
     Bedrooms *
    </option>
    <option value="0">
     Studio
    </option>
    <option value="1">
     1 Bedroom
    </option>
    <option value="1.5">
     Flex 2 Bedrooms
    </option>
    <option value="2">
     2 Bedrooms
    </option>
    <option value="2.5">
     Flex 3 Bedrooms
    </option>
    <option value="3">
     3 Bedrooms
    </option>
   </select>
  </fieldset>
 </form>
</body>
</html>
A: 

Hm... Strange. Seems to be a problem inside your browser/popup blocker... What about selects on other websites? Do they work as intended? Have you tried stripping it down further:

<form>
<select>
<option>blah</option>
</select>
</form>

just to pinpoint the problem?

+10  A: 

You said "I am using TredoSoft MultipleIEs "

I am having the EXACT same problem, and I am using Internet Explorer Collection to run multiple versions on one pc. Therefore, I conclude the problem is with Multiple IEs on a single machine!!

Hope this helps people, for your response helped me.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion. I was also running VMWare Fusion, which I'm sure didn't help. Oh well.
neezer
jeffamaphone
I also ran into this, and it definitely appears to be a problem with a combination of MultipleIEs, IE7 Standalone, and IE8.
zombat
I have the issue with IE8. That said, I've also installed IETester so, indeed, that could be the issue. Stupid IE!
DA
Thanks for this, sounds like the solution. I was also using MultipleIE... However, I just uninstalled that (using an uninstaller I found in the MultipleIE folder) and I'm still getting the problem :( Anybody know how to actually remove MultipleIE completely?
vitch
A: 

I uninstalled all my standalones and am still having the same problem.. ahhhh.

Lynsey
Did you make sure to remove all files associated with the standalones? Could be that you have a renegade DLL or temp file that's mucking things up... I'd make sure you've completely cleaned it, 'cause every standard install of IE I've tested since getting rid of the standalone doesn't seem to have this issue.
neezer
+2  A: 

Have found the solution. This is fixed in the latest version of Internet Explorer Collection (released 1st may 2009)

http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

John
Thanks for the link (Tredosoft's package was feeling a little dated); I'll definitely have to check this out when I get my Windoze development box back up.
neezer
A: 

I don't use MultipleIE at the moment, but I have the same problem after trying the IE7 standalone installation...

Thanks for this topic, this helped me a lot. I've not been able to figure it out, as I wasn't able ro reproduce the problem on any of my machines at home.