html-select

I'm trying to hide some options from a drop down. JQuery's .hide() and .show() work great in Firefox and Chrome, but no luck in IE. Any good ideas? Of many possible approaches, this method requires browser sniffing (which in general is not great) but doesn't require having multiple copies of the same select list to swap in and out. //To hide elements $("select option").each(function(index, val){ if ($(this).is('option') && (!$(this).parent().is('span'))) $(this).wrap((navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') ? '<span>' : null).hide(); }); //To show elements $("select option").each

I have looked for answers on here and have not found anything that directly can help me so I am going to ask here. I have a form with multiple select boxes: <select name="acabados[]"> <option value="1">ABC</option> <option value="2">DEF</option> <option value="3">GHI</option> </select> <select name="acabados[]"> <option value="1">ABC</option> <option value="2">DEF</option> <option value="3">GHI</option> </select> As you can see they are the exact same select box. I have told the client to use select multiple but he wants it this way. The user can add as many as these select boxes as they

Is it possible in a html select , to display the value of the option instead of the text? It's gonna be used for displaying a long disription in the dropdown, but when selecting it should only be showing a short text/ the value of the option. code: <select> <option value="1">This is a long long text, that explains option 1</option> <option value="2">This is a long long text, that explains option 2</option> </select> Now the selected item, when you leave the dropdown/combobox/whatever, should only display '1' You can do it by using the label tag: <option value="the_value" label="the text

In MVC3 I have this code at my controller. It retrieves a List of IDs\Names from Installation table and creates a ViewBag var vs = dba.Installation.OrderBy(q => q.InstName).ToList(); ViewBag.Vessels = new SelectList(vs, "InstId", "InstName"); Now, at my view. I want to render the list in a dropdown list. I used the Html helper that works fine... @Html.DropDownList("InstId",(SelectList)ViewBag.Vessels, "- Select one -") I need to set first item in the ViewBag List as a default selected value, instead of "- Select one -" text. How can I do it? Thanks in advance! There's an overload for the

I am trying to populate a dropdown using values from a column. Now the problem is: I am not getting the actual values (the country codes like India(+61)) in the dropdown. Instead I am getting "System.Data.DataRowView" (multiple times) in the dropdown. public void bind() { DataSet ds1 = new DataSet(); SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionString"]); con.Open(); string strQuery = "select CountryCode from AUser"; SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(strQuery, con); using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd)) da.Fill(ds1, "AUser")