alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?a55fa98f01.jpgHi I am trying to use a HTML select box with 'multiple' select options and size to 1 as below
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<SELECT NAME="toppings" MULTIPLE SIZE=5>
<OPTION VALUE="mushrooms">mushrooms
<OPTION VALUE="greenpeppers">green peppers
</SELECT>
When the size is set to 1 small scrollbar appears which makes the page clumsy.If I increase the size its eating up my page since there are around 20 such multiple boxes in and around the page. I am looking for a solution which looks like <SELECT> but should function as multiple
Is this possible. I remember seen something similar but don't remember exactly.
Any ideas
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Check out this code... it turns your multi-row select into a dropdown with checkboxes using jQuery.
code.google.com/p/dropdown-check-list
I'm going to go in bit of a different direction with this one:
You really, really need to rethink your design if you need to do what you are doing here. You might also want to pick up a book on HTML; and interface design in general.
When things look a certain way, that gives people certain expectations: A single-select should always look like a single-select, and a multiple-select should never look like a single-select.
You can't get a multiple select to display as a regular select. If you could, how would you expect the user to select multiple values ?
That being said, the solution would be to create your own custom solution or use one of the jquery plugin out there.
You can't hide the scroll bar in a multi-select... otherwise it would look like a text-area and may confuse a user. If you really want to hide it, make a div and float it over the area of the scrollbar to simulate hiding it. I don't recommend it but its a possibility.
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I'm using bootstrap 3 and am trying to imitate jQueryMobile's select option where you can replace the standard select textbar and arrows with just a button which toggles the opening of said select.
I don't want to use dropdowns either because they get hidden inside my nested divs (if you can make them appear at the topmost layer, then that's fine too).
So I'm wondering if there's a way to have a button as a stand-in for opening the select options.
Not totally sure on this, need a little more information. But you can create a button with:
<button type="button" onclick="alert('Message')">Button</button>
if that what you wanted?
This isn't exactly what you asked for but I did a search and found this plugin and I think if you were to experiment with this then you could come up with the desired effect. Give it a look over.
Theres a spot about a 1/3 of the way down the page which I think would help you decide if this would work.
Plugin: Bootstrap-Select
I have a tree of data organized like so (but with many many more options) in a dropdown list:
pizza
pizza.mediterranean
pizza.veggie
pizza.meatlover
drinks
drinks.soda
drinks.soda.pepsi
drinks.soda.coke
drinks.beer
drinks.water
I want the larger categories (pizza,drinks) to show up as optgroups but I want to be able to select an optgroup as an option in the drop down list. What I have read multiple places is that optgroups are only for grouping and can not be selected.
Since I also want more than one level of indentation to allow the dropdown to look as close to the above example as possible -- perhaps optgroups aren't the way to go but rather a css solution. In firefox I can do what I want by adding styles to the options and making them bold and/or have a left padding but it seems like in webkit the only attibute I can change on options in a dropdown is their color.
Does anyone know how I can achieve this effect in webkit (chrome/safari) and firefox --- (I don't really care about IE at the moment) using optgroups, css, or anything else?
You may just want to go low-tech:
<select>
<option>Root</option>
<option> Second level</option>
<option> Third level</option>
</select>
You are hitting the limits of what you can do with a real select. Conceptually, these select widgets are drawn by the OS (although some browsers - firefox - have their own implementations), so the styling options are limited.
There are many nice select replacements. The one I'm most familiar with is jqueryui's autocomplete. It is fast and flexible and you can style the options however you like. One can imagine other home-grown solutions using jquery or another toolkit - or plain 'ol javascript.
Using a set of radio buttons (or checkboxes, if several choices are to be allowed) instead of a select element, you can organize and style them like any other content, e.g. with indentation and bolding. It won’t act as a dropdown menu, though, but this can actually be a usability and accessibility improvement.
I want to make phone based textbox in my html-page. someone have idea how I can do this.
Thanks
This is the plugin I always use for that. works great:
http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/
for your example:
jQuery(function($){
$(".phone").mask("(999) 999-9999",{placeholder:" "});
});
Depending on how complicated you want to get, you could use a simple background for the input box with the () and - inserted (albeit much smaller in order to fit).
A more complicated approach would be to have 3 textboxes, for each part of the number. Then put the () and - between the boxes. This may frustrate users though, as they will have to tab or click between the boxes.
You could modify the above method to include some javascript, which automatically changes focus from one textbox to another after the user finishes typing. This may work better, but will cause problems if the user ever tries to go back and edit their number.
Another way you could do this is to insert the () and - automatically with javascript after the number is changed. This may work better than the above method, but will still cause some issues with editing. It may also look strange before the numbers are added in.
It is worth noting that there is no real international standard for phone numbers. You might get into trouble if someone tries to use a country code or something on your site. If I were you I would just stick to the classic text box, ugly as it may be.
You can try something like this
<input type="text" id="phoneNumber" placeholder="(123)123-1234" />
CSS
#phoneNumber{
margin:1em;
border:2px solid #ffc600;
font-size:2em;
border-radius:10px;
padding:.25em;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/RgTTt/
NB: Placeholder will, in all modern browsers, render whatever you like in the input box and then disappear once the user starts to type in the box. If you want the parentheses - () - to be colored, then you will need to use some spans and a custom piece of javascript.
I'm talking about your standard:
<select>
<option>blah blah</option>
<option>blah bl</option>
</select>
my problem is, for the dataset I must include in this dropdown, I've got a few outliers:
That's a distribution graph of the total occurrences (y-axis) of all character counts (x-axis) for the strings in the dropdown.
The average is only ~18.5 characters, but accommodating the 101 char string forces me to use a really small font.
Is there a way to wrap text inside a <option></option> ? I tried just dropping a <br /> inside the middle of the string and that didn't validate.
In general, native <select> and <option> form controls offer very little control over how they can be styled, especially if cross-browser compatibility is a concern. If you want to be able to control things much better, your best bet is to have everything in a normal <select> box (for accessibility) and then to override it with a fake select box using JavaScript. I've had to do this in the past and the jQuery UI library worked well for me.
In your case, one possible UI that might would (if you go the JavaScript replace route) would be to use an ellipsis on the long elements, but then show their full text on mouseover and focus (it's early, so these might not be the correct events, but you get the idea).
Once you have JavaScript controlling a fake select box, there's really no end to what you can do for the UI behavior, but ultimately, if you need control, native form controls usually don't cut it.
I would like to know if there is anyway I can divide an item on two line inside a select box.
One of the values of my select box is two long to fit in my div.
No, this is impossible.
You can consider using a javascript widget, like this jQuery plug-in.
May I also say that what you are trying to do is uncommon - even in desktop applications users don't expect to find wrapped text in a drop-down box and may get confused if they do see one. It would be better to try a different control or try to limit the text.
It is impossible, but if it's simply a matter of avoiding that the element gets too wide you could just define a width (eg. <select style="width:100px;">). This will cause text to be cut off when the box is "closed", but as soon as you "open" it the entire text will be shown.
As far as I know, it's impossible. However, I'd look at jQuery for options. Specifically, there are jQuery plugins that allow for select box customization.
Select Box Factory 2.0 is one option. I believe it extends the functionality of the select box to allow text wrapping among other features.
You could simple add an option disabled in blank
<option disabled selected value> </option>
Divide an item that's on two lines in a select box.
Why would you want to do that? If you're using a JQuery plugin to make HTML display inside an option tag, then there would be no reason to ask this question, I don't think, as you would be already able to add a tag.
What you can do to make spacing in select elements, is to create a blank option tag, that has an empty value and name. You would then have to validate the submission to detect if a blank value was submitted.
If you are really in need, a hacky solution would be to take a screenshot of the text on two lines, and use images in your select box.
http://www.jquerybyexample.net/2012/05/how-to-add-images-in-dropdown-list.html
Just be sure to set the alt tag on the images for accessibility.