When using IE, you cannot put an absolutely positioned div over a select input element. That's because the select element is considered an ActiveX object and is on top of every HTML element in the page. I already saw people hiding selects when opening a popup div, that leads to pretty bad user experience having controls disappearing. F...
In a drop down list, I need to add spaces in front of the options in the list. I am trying <select> <option>  Sample</option> </select> for adding two spaces but it displays no spaces. How can I add spaces before option texts? ...
I have the following HTML (note the CSS making the background black and text white) <html> <select id="opts" style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <option>first</option> <option>second</option> </select> </html> Safari is smart enough to make the small triangle that appears to the right of the text the same colo...
Does anyone know how many options a drop down list can have? Is it unlimited? How many before performance degrades? ...
I have multiple selects: <select id="one"> <option value="1">one</option> <option value="2">two</option> <option value="3">three</option> </select> <select id="two"> <option value="1">one</option> <option value="2">two</option> <option value="3">three</option> </select> What I want is to select "one" from the first select,...
I have jQuery but I'm not sure if it has any built-in sorting helpers. I could make a 2d array of each item's text, value, and selected properties, but I don't think that javascript's built in Array.sort() would work correctly. ...
Help! I am using JQuery to make an AJAX call to fill in a drop-down dynamically given the user's previous input (from another drop-down, that is filled server-side). In all other browsers aside from Firefox (IE6/7, Opera, Safari), my append call actually appends the information below my existing option - "Select An ". But in Firefox, it ...
How come this doesn't work (operating on an empty select list <select id="requestTypes"></select> $(function() { $.getJSON("/RequestX/GetRequestTypes/", showRequestTypes); } ); function showRequestTypes(data, textStatus) { $.each(data, function() { var option = new Option(thi...
I've currently got multiple select's on a page that are added dynamically with ajax calls using jquery. The problem I've had is I could not get the change event to work on the added select unless I use the onchange inside the tag e.g. <select id="Size" size="1" onchange="onChange(this);"> This works, but I'm wondering if there's a w...
Using jQuery, how do you check if there is an option selected in a select menu, and if not, assign one of the options as selected. (The select is generated with a maze of PHP functions in an app I just inherited, so this is a quick fix while I get my head around those :) ...
Basically, I'm trying to selectively copy a table from one database to another. I have two different [Oracle] databases (e.g., running on different hosts) with the same schema. I'm interested in a efficient way to load Table A in DB1 with the result of running a select on Table A in DB2. I'm using JDBC, if that's relevant. ...
I'm creating a custom Java Struts tag that is for building and formatting an html select box in a standardised way (part of our usability guidelines). Each select box has an additional/initial value which describes the requirement of the value returned by the select element, i.e.: Mandatory - with the label "Please Select" Optional - ...
I know many people who use computers every day, who do not know how to select multiple items in a HTML select box/list. I don't want to use this control in my pages any more: Please pick 3 options: <select name="categories" size="10" multiple="yes"> So what user-friendly alternatives do you suggest? Perhaps have 10 tickboxes...or mayb...
Hi all, I’m having an issue where a drop down list in IE 6/7 is behaving as such: You can see that the drop down width is not wide enough to display the whole text without expanding the overall drop down list. However in Firefox, there is no issue as it expands the width accordingly. This is the behaviour we want in IE 6/7: We’ve...
Does the HTML "select" element have an on select event? what exactly is the name of the event? ...
I have this drop down list, displaying all the files from a folder, one of which will be selected for use. Is there a way to show which file is selected when you load the page? at the moment it says "select a file" every time. <select name="image" type="text" class="box" id="image" value="<?=$image;?>"> <option value='empty'>Select a fi...
I've got an HTML "select" element which I'm updating dynamically with code something like this: var selector = document.getElementById('selectorId'); for (var i = 0; i < data.length; ++i) { var opt = document.createElement('option'); opt.value = data[i].id; opt.text = data[i].name; selector.appendChild(opt); } Works fine i...
Maybe this is an easy question, maybe not. I have a select box where I hardcode with width. Say 120px. ABC REALLY LONG TEXT, REALLY LONG TEXT, REALLY LONG TEXT I want to be able to show the second option so that the user can see the full length of the text. Like everything else. This works fine in Firefox, but doesn't work wit...
I'm trying to implement a dynamic OPTION list in JavaScript. Depending on other selections in the web form, some of the OPTIONS in a specific SELECT are not valid. Things I've tried that don't work in IE are: populate all options, then set the disabled property for those that are invalid populate all options and use option groups, t...
We determined in a previous question that many features of HTML SELECTs are not supported in IE. Is there an alternative widget that you would recommend from your experience that meets the following requirements? Respects the contentEditable property (does not allow selection changes if true) Respects the disabled property of individu...