Does native HTML have a listbox element? You know how it has a drop box element (called select), does it also have a listbox?
If not, do you know how I could place a list box in my Website.
One method, is to create a table & have each element detect the onclick event. But I dont want to make my own just yet. Are javascript widgets easy to use?
Use a select list:
<select multiple="multiple" size="2">
<option value="Whatever">One</option>
<option value="Other">Two</option>
</select>
#Myles has the select box which is correct, you can also allow multiple select options.
<select multiple="multiple">
<option value="opt1">Option 1</option>
<option value="opt2">Option 2</option>
<option value="opt3">Option 3</option>
</select>
Add the multiple attribute to a normal <select> and use the size attribute to determine how many rows you want shown. (If you don't set the size attribute, then all options will be visible.):
<select multiple="multiple" size="5">
See example.
I think what you need is the select tag, but set the selects attributes of multiple and size. Here is a reference http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp.
<select multiple='multiple' size='3'>
<option value='o1'>Red</option>
<option value='o2'>Green</option>
<option value='o3'>Blue</option>
</select>
At this moment the standards do not have a listbox element.
There's a web spec in progress about the <selectmenu> element which does have a listbox slot (not element). Possibly this could end up being back in the <select> element
If you want to read more about it:
https://open-ui.org/prototypes/selectmenu
https://css-tricks.com/the-selectmenu-element/
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I have a <select> element defined like this:
<select>
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
</select>
I would like to get the same functionality (being able to select an option), except I want to permanently display all the options, instead of hiding them in a drop-down-list. I basically want to make a listbox.
Would this be possible?
Is there already an element that will do this?
Would I have to modify the element?
Try to use size attribute in your select widget
code
<select name="file_type" size="8">
<option value=".jpg">.JPG</option>
<option value=".png">.PNG</option>
<option value=".gif">.GIF</option>
</select>
Is it possible to dynamicaly resize the visible options in select tag in forms? I have the example:
<select size="1">
<option value='1'>1
<option selected value='2'>2
<option value='3'>3
<option value='4'>4
</select>
I would like to have visible all options (to setup size dynamically with css) when design page for printing. And also to see selected option(s) in another design (color, bold ...). For resize I tried:
select{
size:4;
}
but it doesn't work. I need a working solution at least for FF, IE, Safari ...
Do have any idea?
Thanks in advance!
You can use this way:
<select size="1" size="4">
<option value='1'>1</option>
<option selected value='2'>2</option>
<option value='3'>3</option>
<option value='4'>4</option>
</select>
And don't forget to close the </option>
Using just HTML, I need both these dropdown's to be open. I really hope you can help me with this.
<Select> Would be the wrong way to go for this. You'll need to use javascript or look for other available controls which will allow you to keep your list visible. This is one example of the many blogs which mentions such controls.
It is a default behavior of drop-down elements.
But the <select> element have a size property where you can define the number of lines that control will be displayed. If you set a value greater than 1 the combobox will be displayed as listbox.
So you can make a JavaScript to dinamically change the size of the control to fix the viewing of the options:
<select size="1" onmousedown="this.size=4">
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
You can read something about here
Is it possible (using HTML only) to display select with options that span multiple lines each?
It is not possible using html select control.
You can use a div that can act as a dropdown list using JavaScript and css.
not only is it not possible on standard html, but it would then (as an object) become incompatible with the way IOS devices handle the option tag, which is to display a scroll list so it is not even reasonable to want the option tag to behave that way as it would break cross-device compatibility badly and unexpectedly.
as others have answered (i dont have enough reputation to upvote or comment yet) have said, it must be done with css/div styling etc and in that way is a lot more extensible with full html functionality within each of the option tag's as well as (via css styling) being mobile device friendly.
If your case is around iOS truncating long option text, then the solution from How to fix truncated text on <select> element on iOS7 can help.
Add an empty optgroup at the end of the select list:
You can implement like this:
<select>
<option selected="" disabled="">option first</option>
<option>another option that is really long and will probably be truncated on a mobile device</option>
...
<optgroup label=""></optgroup>
</select>
As the presentation of a select element is up to the user agent, I'm afraid you can't have that, unless some UA actually implements it. But select as either a ListBox or ComboBox never really had much need for items spanning multiple lines. Furthermore it would greatly confuse users as they are used to one line = one item.
No.
You could use radio buttons instead though, their <label>s can word wrap.
It would be possible by using some JavaScript with CSS styling on HTML elements, easily done with a framework like Dojo Toolkit. Otherwise, use Radio or Checkbox controls.
If you have lots of options and for that reason looking for multi-line possibility, then there is another trick that can be helpful. Instead of using select and option tag, use datalist and option tag. By this, users can search for their option inside the select area.
<input list="stocks" name="stockArea" placeholder="hello">
<label for="stockArea">Select Your Stock</label>
<datalist id="stocks">
<option value="Microsoft" >
<option value="Lenovo">
<option value="Apple">
<option value="Twitter">
<option value="Amazon">
</datalist>
What about:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<select size="13" multiple>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
<option value="saab">Saab</option>
<option value="opel">Opel</option>
<option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but maybe it could help you.
If you want to select multiple options, you must press Ctrl + click to select more options.
If you want to disable multiselect, just erase the "multiple" parameter from the SELECT tag.
My problem is HTML and CSS related. I have a hierarchy type structure that I want to display inside a list. The hierarchy contains Countries, States and Cities (it is three levels deep).
I want to display the list inside a select list, each item type (Country, State, City) must be selectable. The items should appear indented as:
United States
- Hawaii
-- Kauai
- Washington
-- Seattle
-- Chelan
The problem is with the indentation. I am trying to use either margin-left or padding-left to indent the tags, which appear correct in FireFox but not in IE7. This is an example of the generated select list:
<select name="Something">
<option style="padding-left: 0">United States</option>
<option style="padding-left: 20px">Hawaii</option>
<option style="padding-left: 40px">Kauai</option>
<option style="padding-left: 20px">Washington</option>
<option style="padding-left: 40px">Seattle</option>
<option style="padding-left: 40px">Chelan</option>
</select>
I want to achieve consistent indentation across browsers without using CSS hacks.
The rendering of SELECT elements is largely up to the browser, you have very little influence over their presentation. Some browsers obviously allow you more customization than others, IE happens to allow very little (gasp, who'd have thunk ;)). If you need very custom SELECT elements, you'll need to employ JavaScript or re-create something that behaves like a SELECT but is made of a bunch of DIVs and checkboxes or something to that extend.
Having said that, I think what you're looking for are OPTGROUPs:
<select>
<optgroup label="xxx">
<option value="xxxx">xxxx</option>
....
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="yyy">
...
</optgroup>
</select>
Every browser will display them differently, but they'll be displayed in a distinctive fashion in one way or another. Note though that officially in HTML4 you can't nest OPTGROUPs.
deceze way is much better and was my first idea. As an alternative if that doesn't work is that you can use non-breaking spaces in the tag value:
<select>
<option>select me</option>
<option> me indented</option>
<option> even more indentation</option>
</select>
It's far from pretty but it might work for you if the optgroup doesn't.
Just for the sake of visitors, I feel I should share this solution I devised: http://jsfiddle.net/n9qpN/
Decorate the options with the level class
<select name="hierarchiacal">
<option class="level_1">United States</option>
<option class="level_2">Hawaii</option>
<option class="level_3">Kauai</option>
<option class="level_2">Washington</option>
<option class="level_3">Seattle</option>
<option class="level_3">Chelan</option>
</select>
We can now use jQuery to reformat the content of the select element
$(document).ready(
function(){
$('.level_2').each(
function(){
$(this).text('----'+$(this).text());
}
);
$('.level_3').each(
function(){
$(this).text('---------'+$(this).text());
}
);
}
);
This can be extended to any level
Try using
<select name="Something">
<option>United States</option>
<option> Hawaii</option>
<option> Kauai</option>
<option> Washington</option>
<option> Seattle</option>
<option> Chelan</option>
</select>
Isn't this method of grouping creating more problems than it solves? As a user, which of those am I supposed to choose? Is there any benefit to choosing something more specific than country?
If the issue is that you only have one database field to store them in, why not have three separate select boxes (making 2 or 3 optional) and just store the most specific?:
<select name="country">
<option>Choose a country</option>
<option>United States</option>
</select>
<select name="state">
<option>Choose a state</option>
<option>Hawaii</option>
</select>
<select name="city">
<option>Choose a city</option>
<option>Kauai</option>
</select>
I was able to accomplish this using the NO-BREAK SPACE unicode character. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a0/index.htm
Copy-paste the character from that page into code and voila:
https://jsfiddle.net/fwillerup/r9ch988h/
( didn't work for me because I was using a library for fancy select boxes that would inject them verbatim.)
Prepending Non breaking space ( ) did not work for me.
I prepended the following:
String.fromCharCode(8194);