How do I disable the dropdwon button on a SELECT element

Hi, all

I would like to disable the dropdowm function on a SELECT element. I tried
"disabled", it works but it becomes dim. I tried readonly, it won't work. I
tried "onmousedown='return false' " , it won't work. Please advise how to
disable it? Thank you very much!

Jack

"Jack" <jack2005 (AT) tpg (DOT) com.au> wrote

Hi, all

I would like to disable the dropdowm function on a SELECT element. I tried
"disabled", it works but it becomes dim. I tried readonly, it won't work.
I
tried "onmousedown='return false' " , it won't work. Please advise how to
disable it? Thank you very much!

Why would you want to do that? The only function of a dropdown menu is
dropping down, and you want to disable that? Then why have the control in
the first place? What does it matter if it goes dim if you disable it? This
is just so odd question...

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Thank you for reply. I just want the Select element to work a readonly
field.

Jack


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Hi, all

I would like to disable the dropdowm function on a SELECT element. I
tried
"disabled", it works but it becomes dim. I tried readonly, it won't
work.
I
tried "onmousedown='return false' " , it won't work. Please advise how
to
disable it? Thank you very much!



Why would you want to do that? The only function of a dropdown menu is
dropping down, and you want to disable that? Then why have the control in
the first place? What does it matter if it goes dim if you disable it?
This
is just so odd question...

--
"En ole paha ihminen, mutta omenat ovat elinkeinoni." -Perttu Sirvi?
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Jack wrote:

Thank you for reply. I just want the Select element to work a readonly
field.

Jack

1. went to google

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2. quickly scanned 1st pg of hits

http://www.mredkj.com/tutorials/tutorial001.html

"Jack" <jack2005 (AT) tpg (DOT) com.au> wrote

Thank you for reply. I just want the Select element to work a readonly
field.

Okay... so why the select? Why not a readonly text input? Like so: <input
type="text" readonly>

A select that user can't select serves no purpouse, if you ask me. I'd still
like to hear a bit more of the situation, so that I might understund what
you want. Well, I've heard _what_ you want, but I still don't know _why_ you
want that... You obviously have a perfectly good reason.

Since html4.01 specification does not define readonly for select element,
the closest you can achieve is something like this:
<select name="select" onChange="this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option>one</option>
<option>two</option>
</select>

The user may select something from the list, but js forces it to select 0
regardless of what user selected. Now, this again has no effect at all if I
turn off javascript, so it has no significant value. Disabling the select is
the fool-proof method, but apparently it's not what you wanted.

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My point is I would like to show the information comes from a sql database
in a form to remind user when filling the form. While the information is
just a code, so I setup the SELECT OPTION with Value=code and description on
OPTION text. Such as
<OPTION value="code1">description1
<OPTION value="code2">description2
....
Then users just see the description instead of the code.


Jack

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Thank you for reply. I just want the Select element to work a readonly
field.


Okay... so why the select? Why not a readonly text input? Like so: <input
type="text" readonly

A select that user can't select serves no purpouse, if you ask me. I'd
still
like to hear a bit more of the situation, so that I might understund what
you want. Well, I've heard _what_ you want, but I still don't know _why_
you
want that... You obviously have a perfectly good reason.

Since html4.01 specification does not define readonly for select element,
the closest you can achieve is something like this:
select name="select" onChange="this.selectedIndex=0;"
option>one</option
option>two</option
/select

The user may select something from the list, but js forces it to select 0
regardless of what user selected. Now, this again has no effect at all if
I
turn off javascript, so it has no significant value. Disabling the select
is
the fool-proof method, but apparently it's not what you wanted.

--
"En ole paha ihminen, mutta omenat ovat elinkeinoni." -Perttu Sirvi?
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Thank you for the hint. At the moment, I do like this:
<select name="select" onFocus="zzj=this.selectedIndex"
onchange="this.selectedIndex=zzj">


Jack

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Thank you for reply. I just want the Select element to work a readonly
field.


Okay... so why the select? Why not a readonly text input? Like so: <input
type="text" readonly

A select that user can't select serves no purpouse, if you ask me. I'd
still
like to hear a bit more of the situation, so that I might understund what
you want. Well, I've heard _what_ you want, but I still don't know _why_
you
want that... You obviously have a perfectly good reason.

Since html4.01 specification does not define readonly for select element,
the closest you can achieve is something like this:
select name="select" onChange="this.selectedIndex=0;"
option>one</option
option>two</option
/select

The user may select something from the list, but js forces it to select 0
regardless of what user selected. Now, this again has no effect at all if
I
turn off javascript, so it has no significant value. Disabling the select
is
the fool-proof method, but apparently it's not what you wanted.

--
"En ole paha ihminen, mutta omenat ovat elinkeinoni." -Perttu Sirvi?
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