I'm creating a select form and stripped most styles so far, but I'm noticing this weird behavior on safari where the currently selected option has a . before the text in the dropdown. To clarify, if I have a yes/no select with a standard value of yes, if i click the arrow, when the drop down is revealed it says .yes / no
Does anyone know why this may be happening and how to remove it?
Markup
<select>
<option value="1">inexperienced</option>
<option value="2">experienced</option>
</select>
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I have a simple form with some select options that need to do stuff when the options are changed (create new form elements). This all works fine, however when a select option is chosen and the user clicks elsewhere on the page (either another form option or a blank area of the page) the text of the chosen option remains highlighted blue.
I've used select's before and not had this problem, however they weren't linked to the .change function. Is that something to do with why this is happening? Has anybody encountered this issue before? All help greaty appreciated! Code is below...
<div id="container1" class="form-group">
<label class="control-label">Select an option</label>
<div>
<select class="form-control" id="mySelect">
<optgroup label="A">
<option value="1A">Option1A</option>
<option value="2A">Option2A</option>
<option value="3A">Option3A</option>
<option value="4A">Option4A</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="B">
<option value="1B">Option1B</option>
<option value="2B">Option2B</option>
<option value="3B">Option3B</option>
<option value="4B">Option4B</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
</div>
</div>
I've seen the issue brought up here
Remove Blue highlighting of option
However I don't think this quite describes my problem, as it seems to me that that person wants to remove the blue highlighting whilst using the form (hard to be 100% sure though). I don't mind the blue highlighting being there when using the form, I just want it to stop persisting when you stop using the form and do something else on the page.
UPDATE: Problem only seems to occur in Internet Explorer (tested versions 9, 10 and 11). Tested in Chrome and issue doesn't occur. Just to elaborate on the comments, the issue has nothing to do with JS (so I have removed the JQuery code and subsequent tags). The issue occurs when using optgroups in a select form. Loading the HTML outlined above into IE produces the error.
The text between the option tags in a select box is not rendering correctly when open in my Chrome Version 37.0.2062.120.
See attached screenshot for a clear illustration of the issue.
When I select an option and focus away from the box the correct option is selected and renders correctly when the select box is closed.
I've tested the same in Canary 39.0.2161.0 and FF and it renders correctly without being distorted.
I've not seen anything like is before.
Anything to do with Chrome's recent font rendering update?
Any help is much appreciated.!
Link to page, form is at the bottom: http://dev.emarkadvantage.com/strategy.php
UPDATE: A fix that worked for me was to move the position of the SVG font down the #font-face stack to the bottom.
I have had this before. Use a standard (i.e. non web) font for your selects. I don't know why web fonts cause a problem...but they do.
See also this answer.
You should add class on select tag,
class="form-control"
<select id="category" class="form-control">
<option value="">Your top callenge today?</option>
<option value="Sales">Sales</option>
<option value="Competition">Competition</option>
<option value="Marketing ROI">Marketing ROI</option>
<option value="Positioning">Positioning</option>
</select>
I have two drop downs in a search box, a "YearFrom" and a "YearTo".
When nothing has been selected in the "YearFrom", the "YearTo" box looks a little like this :
However the functionality is that once a "YearFrom" is selected, that the "YearTo" fields only offer what is available AFTER the year from. In essence, we end up with HTML like this :
<select>
<option value="">Any</option>
<option value="1950" disabled="disabled" style="display: none;">1950</option>
<option value="1960" disabled="disabled" style="display: none;">1960</option>
...
<option value="2011" style="">2011</option>
<option value="2012" style="">2012</option>
<option value="2013" style="">2013</option>
</select>
So any years below the YearFrom value are hidden. However what we then end up with is the select list looking like this :
So it isn't so much as a drop down, as now a tiny little box with a scroller on the right.
For reference, this doesn't happen in any other browser. e.g. this is how it looks in Firefox.
I've just come across this error as well.
My guess is that the Chrome browser calculates the drop-down height by measuring the heigths of the options and optgroups, but stops calculating the moment it comes across an element that has no height or is display:none.
To work around this in my own code, I dynamically rearrange the options after each update so that display:none elements are at the bottom of the list. it creates another visual bug (white space on right of dropdown) but I can live with that one.
I have been looking around for a couple days now and haven't found the answer. I did see this: jQuery - Copy / move text from select list to textarea which I already did, but then the problem is what if the after copying the selected drop down item to go into the text area you change your mind and want to send it back or get rid of it?
I'm not sure if it's best to use two tags or if I should use textareas. This is what I have for the field on the left:
<select size="10" name="options" variable="#available options" multiple="multiple">
<option value="option1">Option 1</option>
<option value="option2">Option 2</option>
</select>
And then when options are selected and the button is clicked they are added to a list and my textarea on the right reflects that list. Should I also make the area on the right a selectable drop down similar to the one with all my options? If I do that, then how to I get it to reflect only the options I have clicked?
Sorry if this doesn't make sense. It's my first time posting here and I'm not a programmer (but learning). Thanks in advance!
actually my problem is...
i using dropdown list in my jsp page.
this dropdown list will have in a for loop.
example....
<%
int count1=0;
for(int i=0;i<5;i++) {
count1++;
%>
<div><input class="no" type="radio" name="companycode" id="<%=count1%>" value ="<%=count1%>"><%=count1%>
<select class="none" name="cgccode" id="cgccode<%=count1%>">
<option value="">-select-</option>
<option value="google">GOOGLE</option>
<option value="ibm">IBM</option>
<option value="oracle">ORACLE</option>
<option value="infosys">INFOSYS</option>
</select></div>
<%
}
%>
so, now my problem is,
suppose now i am selecting first radio button, and then i have select the first dropdown list value to IBM.
but after that, i am selecting second radio button (without submitting the previous dropdown list value). and i am selecting to second dropdown value.
but here the first dropdown list does not comes to its previous state. and the selected data is looking as same.
so, i need to change it to its previous state. when i am moving to another radio button.
pls help. i need the solution code. i have tried many ways but its not possible.
Obviously, it won't work unless you use some JavaScript to reset the previous one.
Since everything you do in your scenario is done at client side, in the browser, without any communication to the server, you need to use JavaScript to detect when a radio button value is changed, and set back the other drop-down selections to their default value.