I have a select box, <select multiple=true, that the user populates with values via a Picklist mechanism. I would like to disable highlighting in this box because, by definition, the values in this box are the selection. Just to clarify, I am NOT referring to text selection, which is what ::selection operates on. I'm talking about the u...
I'm trying to use jQuery to check for the existence of an <option> that contains a particular string of text. My attempts so far are not working as I expect. Here's the HTML: <select> <option value="13">General</option> <option value="3">Innovation</option> <option value="8">Marketing</option> <option value="9">Operation...
I am working on a website that involves automatically populating a select box using a PHP script. This all works fine except the problem is that what I am using to populate the text box have very long titles (they are journal articles and presentation titles). The dropdown box extends to the width of the longest element, which stretche...
I need a hierarchical drop down <select><option/></select> for use within a browser, preferably Firefox. I'd rather not use a framework like jQuery. Please spare me the questions as to why. ...
I have 2 multi-select boxes that transfer to each other. The transfer both ways goes fine. I also call an ajax fn to submit the selected options to a database. The call from left to right works fine because I am just getting all the options, not just selected ones. var domelts = $('#imfavs option'); // next translate that into an array ...
I'd like to replace a multiple select box like: <select multiple="multiple" name="options"> <option value="option1">option1</option> <option value="option2">option2</option> ... </select> with an arbitrary number of simple select boxes: <select name="options1"> <option value="option1">option1</option> <option value="o...
I am trying to come up with a way using ajax and jquery to display a range of values for a select box. The first drop down has options that need to talk to a 2nd drop box and that is a range of numbers, I know how to set the value of a drop down to 1 value, but not how set the whole range. By default the dropdowns are being generated by ...
I am using Django everyday now for three month and it is really great. Fast web application development. I have still one thing that I cannot do exactly how I want to. It is the SelectField and SelectMultiple Field. I want to be able to put some args to an option of a Select. I finally success with the optgroup : class EquipmentField...
Is there a way to capture the events triggered on HTML controls before they are forwarded for default (generic) handling by the control itself. In my case, I want to prevent a element dropdown to open when a user clicks on the control. e.g. On this user click, OnClick() event gets fired and is handled by the default control which open t...
i am using jquery's thickbox plugin ( ver. 3) and inside it I want to place a form that will be submitted using $.post. But the form elements are not behaving as they should. For eg there is a select box <select name="priority" id="priority"> <?php for($i = 5; $i > 0; $i--){ ?> <!-- <input type="radio" cla...
I have a problem with select listboxes under Firefox 3.5.6. When both the "size" attribute and "style:height" attribute are specified, the select control does not seem to process Page Up and Page Down key presses properly. They act strangely: first of all they scroll through the options one at a time, just like an arrow up or down key ...
there is a dropdown with 5 options. Currently,option 2 is selected.The user selects option 4 now.The onchange event gets fired which is caught in a JS function listening for onchange on the select. In the JS function, I can check easily the index of the option selected by the user using the selectedIndex property.However, I want to also...
How do I do it? I've tried setting the tabindex attribute to no avail. ...
I have code below: <select id="testSelect"> <option value="1">One</option> <option value="2">Two</option> </select> <asp:Button ID="btnTest" runat="server" Text="Test it!" onclick="btnTest_Click" /> I need to get selected options' value on postback. How can I do this with asp.net? ...
hello. I have a select element. <select class='cSelectType'> <option value="1">one</option> <option value="2">two</option> <option value="3">three</option> <option value="4">four</option> <option value="5">five</option> </select> i can by jquery set option value selected like this: $('.cSelec...
I create a <select> menu using Javascript then attach it to the page. But when I click on it, it closes immediately. Here's my code, I'm stumpped. var accounts = [ ['user1', 'password'], ['user2', 'passowrd'] ] function html(){ var button = '<a href="#" id="switchacc">Switch User</a> • '; $('a[href=search.ph...
I am able to successfully pre-populate my questions using the following code: First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name" size="30" maxlength="20" value="' . $row[2] . '" /><br /> However, when I try to do the same for a drop down box and a textarea box, nothing is pre-populated from the database, even though there is actual conte...
<select id="ordersSelect" class="drop-down" onchange="somemethod()"> <c:forEach items="${orders}" var="order" varStatus="orderStatus"> <option value="${order.id}"> ${order.publicId} </option> </c:forEach> </select> I have the above peice of code in a JSP page, that receives a list of Orders and each order has some information, the...
I am trying to create multiple dependent dropdowns (selects) with a unique way. I want to restrict the use of selectors and want to achieve this by using a single class selectors on all SELECTs; by figuring out the SELECT that was changed by its index. Hence, the SELECT[i] that changed will change the SELECT[i+1] only (and not the previo...
Hi, I would like to have a drop down menu with jQuery show and hide the different divs (or textareas) below it. Here's my jQuerycode at the moment: $(document).ready(function(){ $('#edit1').hide(); $('#edit2').hide(); $("#page_selection").change(function(){ $("#" + this.value).show().siblings().hide(); })...