Currently trying to style a responsive form using bootstrap. This form actually didn't have any responsive design applied within a separate css file before applying bootstrap, everything was purely type and effects.
But I'm having a lot of issues with a select element within this form.
For whatever reason, a select element, which comes before a series of paired radio buttons (themselves grouped within fieldsets), is cutting off both the legend element and the label element for the first radio input. It looks like this:
select element viewed w/ element picker
It looks like content-box is taking up a ton of space. Or that space is "saved" for an active select dropdown? I'm not sure why there's so much blue there ^_^ I'm probably missing something very simple.
I've sectioned the select element off (using semantic section), I've wrapped it within its own row, I've tried applying some small-but-noticeable amount of extra margin-bottom (mb-4 for example).
None of this has worked. Here's my code for this particular section:
<section class="col-8 col-md-4" id="recommend">
<label class="col-form-label" for="select">Would you recommend your stay at the Aperture
Science computer-aided Enrichment Center?</label>
<select class="form-control mb-5" name="select" id="select" required>
<option value="">-- Please select an option --</option>
<option value="yes">Yes</option>
<option value="absolutely">Absolutely</option>
<option value="of_course">Of course!</option>
</section>
Any ideas? :D
You should probably end your <select> element, as this could have unknown effects on the rest of the DOM.
<select class="form-control mb-5" name="select" id="select" required>
<option value="">-- Please select an option --</option>
<option value="yes">Yes</option>
<option value="absolutely">Absolutely</option>
<option value="of_course">Of course!</option>
</select> <!-- <- this was missing -->
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When I add display:none to an <option> tag with JavaScript after the page is ready, it wouldn't hide the default or the selected element, it stays on the hidden option unless I change that manually. The option 08:30 is hidden but it's still there as selected, but not an option.
Here is the HTML and there's also a screenshot:
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<select class="form-select" id="time">
<option value="08:30" style="display: none;">08:30</option>
<option value="08:45">08:45</option>
</select>
</div>
I've tried disabling the <option> tag as well but it does the same and keeps it selected. I need it to jump into an active select option or any other option but not the one I hide or disable.
Update:
I have to use a workaround to get this working. First I've added all <option> tags to the <select> tag, then remove the ones that I don't want:
$('#time').html('
<option value="08:30">08:30</option>
<option value="08:45">08:45</option>
<option value="09:00">09:00</option>
<option value="09:15">09:15</option>
<option value="09:30">09:30</option>
<option value="09:45">09:45</option>
')
$('#time option[value="'09:00'"]').remove()
This works, although doesn't actually solve the issue (I guess that's a bug and hasn't been addressed yet). I would still appreciated an answer to improve the code.
Hello & Welcome Mohsen Salehi,
<option hidden>Hidden option</option>
It is not supported by IE < 11.
Please read more about it here How to hide a in a menu with CSS?
Edit:
You can also add disabled to prevent getting selected.
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<select class="form-select" id="time">
<option value="08:30" style="display: none;" disabled>08:30</option>
<option value="08:45">08:45</option>
</select>
</div>
I have a normal Html Select control with following options:
<form action="/target.php">
<label for="cars">Choose a car:</label>
<select name="cars" id="cars" style="width: 100px; overflow-x: auto;" multiple>
<option value="volvo">Long select option.</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
The first option in the list is a bit longer that the rest. When I select it, I can see the following effect:
However, as I use the horizontal scrollbar to see the rest of the value it appears something as in the image below:
The text on the right are all lost (say both foreground and background are while). Now, I click somewhere outside the Select control, the text appears but half of them selected and rest not.
I tried this with different online html editor and all of them share same behaviour. Is there a way (any css) that I can apply so that once an option is clicked/selected the entire option is selected and not just a portion of it.
The below code is a bit hacky, but it will serve the purpose. You can add the below CSS to make sure the whole item is selected.
option:checked {
width:150px;
}
I would also suggest just increasing the width of the selector for a better user experience, if you do that, you will not encounter the above error.
I am working on an assignment for an online web development course I am taking. The assignment is to create an HTML form.
One of the requirements is for there to be 3 dropdown menus - one for month, day, and year. A label of "Birthday:" is to precede these three menus.
The course's assignment solution showed three select elements nested inside of one label element. I tried this and, although it looked normal in the browser, when I uploaded the file to W3C I received the following error:
"Error: The label element may contain at most one button, input, meter, output, progress, select, or textarea descendant."
Is there a proper way to use one label element to be applied to multiple select elements? Or is this a poor practice and instead each day, month, and year should each get its own label?
Here is my code:
<div>
<label>Birthday:
<select name="month" required>
<option value="">Month</option>
<option value="Jan">Jan</option>
<option value="Feb">Feb</option>
<option value="Mar">Mar</option>
<option value="Apr">Apr</option>
</select>
<select name="day" required>
<option value="">Day</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
</select>
<select name="year" required>
<option value="">Year</option>
<option value="1918">1918</option>
<option value="1988">1988</option>
<option value="1998">1998</option>
<option value="2008">2008</option>
</select>
</label>
</div>
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In HTML, <input /> fields are »primitive«, which means, each one represents a single value primitive value like a number, string, boolean, etc. A Birth date, consisting of three values, one for the year, the month and the day is »complex« in that context. So you cannot make HTML »understand« that you are trying to create a »complex« field in that way.
That's why (imho) you should not attach the label (complex) to any of the fields (primitive) and use the label as »decoration« without any connection to any field, than you wont get any validation errors.
<label>'s as wrapping elements can be helpful (especially for radio buttons) to expand the »clicking area/hitbox« and to apply some css, depending on the fields value, without any javascript. Otherwise linking labels to fields is cool for search engines and stuff, but since HTML does not have a standardized definition about: »how to label complex inputs«, it is difficult to say if the proposed approach is helpful, or will be in the future (afik).
So in your case, I would just:
<form>
<div class="complex field-group">
<label>…</label>
<div class="fields">
<!-- eventually to help bots
<label for="x" style="display:none;">…</label>
-->
<input id="x"/>
…
</div>
</div>
</form>
I know that you can associate a label with an input using the for and id attributes. However can you use a class and not an id? Thanks
<label for="rooms">Number of rooms</label>
<select id="rooms">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
</select>
Classes are not unique (you can have multiple elements with the same class), so no.
If you want to associate a label to an input without using ID, you can implicitly assign it by including said input inside of the label:
<label>Number of rooms
<select name="rooms">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
</select>
</label>
Here is an example of when you wouldn't want to use an ID or nest the control:
I'm creating a BackboneJS application that uses templates. Because the template can be duplicated, it's important to refrain from using IDs, as it will create multiple elements in the DOM with the same ID.
I'm also using Bootstrap, which will present the control in a different (and undesirable) way if it's wrapped inside the <label> element.
At this point, the only solution I can find is to wrap the control element and tweek the default CSS to get the desired output. If someone has a more elegant solution, please chime in.
No, you cannot use the class of an element, because the same class can be used by multiple elements - in which case, which element would the label be for?
No, you can't. The only attribute you can use is the id attribute.
It doesn't make sense to use a class (which describes a group of related elements) since a label can be associated only with exactly one form control.
you can do this :
<label class="col-md-12 input-group input-group-sm">
<span class="col-sm-5 control-label text-nowrap">Code</span>
<input class="form-control listen code" type="text" size="15" required/>
</label>
Right now the search_type which JS uses later is always "people" as can be seen in the hidden input field.
How can I make it so that the selected option's value is the value tied to the name "search_type"?
<input type="hidden" name="search_type" value="people"> <!-- This obviously needs to change-->
<div class="medium-4 columns">
<select>
<option value="default">All Categories</option>
<option value="people">People</option>
<option value="items">Items</option>
</select>
</div>
I have tried changing the name of all the options' names to search_type but this did not work. I have also tried other things, but can't figure it out. Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is the Javascript line that calls it:
search_type: $('input[name="search_type"]').val(),
Note: I am working in Zurb Foundation
Simply put, there is no need to add another input field when you already have a perfectly usable one! change your code so that the <select> includes the name attribute, like so, and get rid of the hidden input:
<div class="medium-4 columns">
<select name="search_type">
<option value="default">All Categories</option>
<option value="people">People</option>
<option value="items">Items</option>
</select>
</div>