html-select

You may feel it is a repeated question, but I have a Asp:DropDownList which needs to be styled like the below picture. I browsed through Google and some sites (mentioned in Stack), but I couldn't get the expected outcome. Can anybody help me in this? Thanks in advance.. Try the following code HTML <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" Width="120px" BackColor="#F6F1DB" ForeColor="#7d6754" Font-Names="Andalus" CssClass="ddl"> <asp:ListItem Text="DEPART FROM"></asp:ListItem> </asp:DropDownList> CSS EDIT <style type="text/css"> .ddl { border:2px solid #7d6754; border-radius:5px;

How to get the value of option select box in jQuery if I have the code like this, <select id='media' name='media'> <option value='1'>media1</option> <option value='2'>media2</option> <option value='3'>media3</option> </select> When I code for on change event, $(document).ready(function() { $("#media").change(function() { var id=$(this).val(); var dataString = 'id='+ id; alert(id); return false; }); }); It gives me media1 , media2 , media3 instead of 1, 2, 3 How to get the value 1, 2, 3? SureshKumaran $("#id option:selected").val(); Here id is the id of a select box. I'm sure it will work 100%.

When using IE, you cannot put an absolutely positioned div over a select input element. That's because the select element is considered an ActiveX object and is on top of every HTML element in the page. I already saw people hiding selects when opening a popup div, that leads to pretty bad user experience having controls disappearing. FogBugz actually had a pretty smart solution (before v6) of turning every select into text boxes when a popup was displayed. This solved the bug and tricked the user eye but the behavior was not perfect. Another solution is in FogBugz 6 where they no more use the

How can I, using jQuery, set the "next" item of an already selected item as "selected." For example, if I have: <select> <option value="1" >Number 1</option> <option value="2" selected="selected">Number 2</option> <option value="3" >Number 3</option> <option value="4" >Number 4</option> </select> We can see that "Number 2" is selected, and using jQuery, I'd like to set "Number 3" as selected, and remove the selected "attribute" from "Number 2". I'm assuming I need to use the next selector, but I'm not quite sure how to implement. $('option:selected', 'select').removeAttr('selected').next(

I have a form on my Ruby on Rails3 Application with a drop menu, this is my current code for the select option: <%= f.select :phone_type, options_for_select(["Select One", "Cell", "Work", "Office", "Home", "Other"],:disabled => ["Select One"]), :class => 'genForm_dropBox' %> From my understanding this should have "Select One" as the default option when someone opens the page, but if they don't select one of the other options an error displays when they hit submit. This is true in Browsers like Safari and Chrome and IE7, but in Firefox and IE8 it shows "Cell" as the first option as Select One