How can I set the width of select box options?

I tried to find a solution through CSS. But I failed to do it. Doesn’t matter; I have written a simple Javascript code for it. This can do something for it. function shortString(selector) { const elements = document.querySelectorAll(selector); const tail=”…”; if (elements && elements.length) { for (const element of elements) { let text = element.innerText; …

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Adding html class tag under in Html.DropDownList

I’ve done this for the DropDownlistFor extension method, not the DropDownList you use, but you can probably figure that out yourself. This stuff is mostly copy/paste from the MVC sources. You can find the sources here. public class ExtendedSelectListItem : SelectListItem { public object htmlAttributes { get; set; } } public static partial class HtmlHelperExtensions …

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jQuery Set Selected Option Using Next

Update: As of jQuery 1.6+ you should use prop() instead of attr() in this case. The difference between attributes and properties can be important in specific situations. Before jQuery 1.6, the .attr() method sometimes took property values into account when retrieving some attributes, which could cause inconsistent behavior. As of jQuery 1.6, the .prop() method …

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How to populate the options of a select element in javascript

You can create the option inside the loop; for(element in langArray) { var opt = document.createElement(“option”); opt.value= index; opt.innerHTML = element; // whatever property it has // then append it to the select element newSelect.appendChild(opt); index++; } // then append the select to an element in the dom 2023 Update: To make sure we avoid …

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What values can appear in the “selected” attribute of the “option” tag?

HTML5 spec https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/sec-forms.html#the-option-element The selected content attribute is a boolean attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#boolean-attributes : The presence of a boolean attribute on an element represents the true value, and the absence of the attribute represents the false value. If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an …

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