For example,in the code,"option"is too low,I want to make it higher only with css(no javascript).
<select>
<option>Beijing</option>
<option>ShangHai</option>
<option>WuHan</option>
</select>
Since that <option> (and <select>) elements are rendered by the browser as a dropdown list, unfortunately you cannot style them, because their style is only controlled by the browser itself.
Change select > option to ul > li list and you can style as you want it yourself with Cross browser compatibility
You can use ul as alternative to style as you want, check this answer.
You can only make options bold or change the font-size, but it's not possible to change the space of the option.
option{font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;}
<select>
<option>Beijing</option>
<option>ShangHai</option>
<option>WuHan</option>
</select>
Options are rendered by the OS, not HTML, so the styling is limited.
line-height can be useful
-webkit-appearance: menulist-button this one can be used both will work
Try this:
option{
padding:10px 0;
}
JSFIDDLE DEMO
Also you can use the <optgroup> element to make it run in Chrome.
EDIT:-
Just saw that it is not reliable and cant be addressed perfectly for cross browser solutions.
MDN says:
Some elements simply can't be styled using CSS. These include all
advanced user interface widgets such as range, color, or date controls
as well as all the dropdown widgets, including , , and elements. The
file picker widget is also known not to be stylable at all. The new
and elements also fall in this category.
Alternative other than Javascript:
If possible then use Bootstrap's Dropdown.
If you're concerning about the mobile friendliness or the Google's mobile first SEO guidelines where the tappable items must not close to each other, then don't worry, modern mobile web browser will auto-adjust the item height for you.
Try This: change the height px to what you wish.
.a option { height: 50px; }
Related
I am creating a Drop down list in HTML using select tag. I am unable to increase the gap between the options inside the select list. Below is my code. How i can increase the gap between the options?
<style type="text/css">
#height {
width: 200px;
}
#height option {
width: 500px;
height:200px !important;
}
</style>
<select id="height">
<option value="bugatti">Bugatti</option>
<option value="lamborghini">Lamborghini</option>
<option value="ferrari">Ferrari</option>
<option value="levis">Levis</option>
<option value="reebok">Reebok</option>
<option value="nike">Nike</option>
</select>
The rendering of option tags is determined by the browser and they have their own peculiar way and so the restrictions like padding and even margin of option tag works in the mozilla firefox while it doesn't works with chrome.
Summary : If its very necessary to change the appearance, you can use custom JS plugins.
That is not possible. If you really need this you should create a custom Option Menu.
No padding, margin, height or line-height are working for options.
You can go with an empty option between the elements but its not a nice solution.
One workaround I found: Increase the font size of just one element (I chose the first one, which I always keep as a blank). I did it programmatically with Javascript:
document.getElementById("myddl").options[0].style.fontSize = "xx-large";
This forces all the options to be displayed with the same (enlarged) space, even though the fontsize of the other options is unchanged.
Woooo i tried this with different browser and one thing i found that by giving padding to the option of select tag this will only work in FireFox except other Browsers like(crome,Ie,safari)...!!!!!!
Strange ..!!!!
so you can try that dropdown with or jquery Pluggins for dropdown
While answering another question I came across this weird bug. A quick search has not found an existing question, so here goes:
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/TrueBlueAussie/93D3h/4/
<select>
<option>Item1</option>
<option>Item2</option>
<option>Item3</option>
<option class="hidden">Item4</option>
<option class="hidden">Item5</option>
</select>
CSS:
.hidden {
display: none;
}
Q: Why is Item5 always shown, even though it is styled as hidden? Item4 is not visible. Note: I am testing this in the latest version of Chrome.
Update:
Different people are getting different results on different browsers. The following (from answer below) works on Chrome but not on the latest IE (both Item4 and Item5 are shown):
.hidden {
visibility: hidden;
}
Turns out this problem has been hit before (no surprise): How to hide a <option> in a <select> menu with CSS? but the surprising thing is that browsers do not support removing options with styling. Go figure!
Styling OPTION elements using CSS is not a reliable solution because user agents implement this very differently and non-standard. I wouldn’t call this a bug, because there is no style attribute definition in the specs for the OPTION element: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.6
You could use the disabled property instead:
<select>
<option>Item1</option>
<option>Item2</option>
<option>Item3</option>
<option disabled>Item4</option>
<option disabled>Item5</option>
</select>
And/or use JavaScript to manipulate the DOM. A pretty good start would be to target the disabled elements for semantic fallback:
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('*[disabled]'), function(element) {
element.parentNode.removeChild(element)
})
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/93D3h/15/
Or use jQuery: $('[disabled]').remove()
Update:
Based on the comments and the new requirements, I made a small toggle demo here using data attributes instead: http://jsfiddle.net/95Ed5/
try this code
.hidden {
visibility: hidden;
}
Designed to display or hide the element, including a frame around it and background. When you hide an element, although it is not displayed at a place that takes the element remains on him. If the intended output of different elements in the same place on the screen to bypass this feature should use absolute positioning, or use the property display.
Your best shot (cross browser solution) would be to use jquery to store the hidden values. It can be done it regular javascript too.
var array = $(".hidden");
$(".hidden").remove();
And then when you need them you get them in array
Update
Here is the updated fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/93D3h/16/
I added two buttons to show what you could do with the stored hidden values (add them back to the select, or remove them)
How can I completely change the design of a element? i am trying to make drop down like following image, what i wrote is
<select>
<option value="0">Title</option>
<option value="1">Mrs</option>
<option value="2">Mr</option>
</select>
i am stuck at put custom image to open drop down list for dropdown and also how to style select element
Some form elements are notoriously hard to style with CSS alone and still appear visually the same across all browsers.
The recommended practice for styling SELECT elemets is generally to use a javascript solution as this will work cross-browser.
Have a look at Chris Coyle's article on this:
http://css-tricks.com/dropdown-default-styling/
You can't style elements such as select in such a way you described it. Things like background-color or border are possible.
Styling with CSS only could go as far like this:
select {
border-radius: 5px;
color: lightgrey;
font-weight: bold;
}
With this CSS you will have the round corners and the font changed.
What's not possible:
Change the icon
Change the background or font of the dropped down box
Try fiddling with javascript, nested divs and a hidden input field. Also a glance at http://jqueryui.com could help you quite much.
I have a form where depending on the website's brand one of two input fields should be visible at one given spot.
I figured I just put both input fields in the same container and then through my stylesheet set one of them to display:none;
This does hide the field, but it still makes it take up space.
I also tried setting the height and width to 0 or setting visibility to hidden or collapse but none of those worked.
Untill now all the branding things could be done with css style sheets so I would like to keep it that way.
The solution should at least be supported in IE6 & up, Firefox 2 & up and Chrome (latest).
why don't you use input type="hidden" ?
What about setting the invisible input field to position: absolute; which should take it out of the rendering flow.
However, setting it to display: none should in theory do the same...
<style>
.hideme
{
display:none;
visibility:hidden;
}
.showme
{
display:inline;
visibility:visible;
}
</style>
<input type="text" name="mytext" class="hideme">
You can either set class="hideme" to hide your control or class="showme" to show your control. You can set this toggeling using JavaScript or server side coding.
This does hide the field, but it still
makes it take up space.
This shouldn't happen; display: none should cause the element to not be included in the flow. Check the rest of your CSS (try using Firebug to figure out where the extra "space", which is probably just padding or margin of some surrounding element, is coming from).
Using the visibility property takes up rendering space even if the element is not visible. Instead of using visivility you have to use display property.
You can set the display to none if you want to hide the element and display to block or inline if you want to show them.
To have a look on display check this
If setting your display property doesn't solve your problem, then I think the textboxes might be absolutely positioned. It might be the reason for the layout not to be changed.
Can you please post the complete code?
You can do this if you want to isolate the css code from other input:
input[type="checkbox"] {
display: none;
}
You can also further isolate it from the same type by indicating another class.
I'm not too familiar with CSS, but you can try implementing JQuery which combines Javascript and CSS to let you do stuff like that with relative ease.
IE seems to ignore the height set in CSS when rendering a HTML SELECT. Are there any work around's for this or do we have to just accept IE will not look as good as other browsers?
There is no work-around for this aside from ditching the select element.
It is correct that there is no work-around for this aside from ditching the select element, but if you only need to show more items in your select list you can simply use the size attribute:
<select multiple="multiple" size="15">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
</select>
Doing this you'll have additional empty lines if your collection of items lenght is smaller than size value.
you can use a combination of font-size and line-height to force it to go larger, but obviously only in the situations where you need the font larger too
edit:
Example -> http://www.bse.co.nz EDIT: (this link is no longer relevant)
the select next to the big search box has the following css rules:
#navigation #search .locationDrop {
font-size:2em;
line-height:27px;
display:block;
float:left;
height:27px;
width:200px;
}
Yes, you can.
I was able to set the height of my SELECT to exactly what I wanted in IE8 and 9. The trick is to set the box-sizing property to content-box. Doing so will set the content area of the SELECT to the height, but keep in mind that margin, border and padding values will not be calculated in the width/height of the SELECT, so adjust those values accordingly.
select {
display: block;
padding: 6px 4px;
-moz-box-sizing: content-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:content-box;
box-sizing:content-box;
height: 15px;
}
Here is a working jsFiddle. Would you mind confirming and marking the appropriate answer?
Use a UI library, like jquery or yui, that provides an alternative to the native SELECT element, typically as part of the implementation of a combo box.
Even though setting a CSS height value to the select element does not work, the padding attribute works alright. Setting a top and bottom padding will make your select element look taller.
Finally found in http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2009/09/setting-height-selectbox-combobox-ie.html
a simple solution (at least for IE8):
font-size: 1.0em;
BTW, for Google Chrome, found this workaround at
How to standardize the height of a select box between Chrome and Firefox? */
-webkit-appearance: menulist-button;
There is a work-around for this (at least for multi-select):
set select size attribute to option list size (use JavaScript or set it to any large enough number)
set select max-height instead of height attribute to desired height (tested on IE9)
You can use a replacement: jQuery Chosen. It looks pretty awesome.
select{
*zoom: 1.6;
*font-size: 9px;
}
If you change properties, size of select will change also in IE7.
See also inconsistent box model between input, select, ...
you could do similar to what facebook does, just add padding around. It is not as good as one could wish but looks reasonably well.
Not sure but I think this was a question not about the height of a 'multiple' type of select element but a drop-down type of select element. I have come across times when the drop-down looks squashed and does not show clearly the selected value. Undoubtedly it has to do with CSS style info in use on the page. The only way to stop it is either change the CSS (which would likely affect the whole page or parts of it in ways you don't want affected) or use style info in the select element itself to override the CSS that's clobbering it. Example:
<select name="myselect" id="myselect" style="font-size:15px; height:30px">
<option value="someval">somedescr</option>
...
</select>
Hope this helps.
i wanted to set the height of the select box to be smaller than the default. i used
select {
position: relative;
height: 10px !important;
display: inline-block;
}
this works on ie7 and ie8. you might only need the height property, i just added the position and display to override properties inherited from higher up the dom.