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Select box auto-width workaround for Internet Explorer (requires jQuery)
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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <!DOCTYPE html | |
| PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" | |
| "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> | |
| <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Select auto-width workaround for Internet Explorer</title> | |
| <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="select-autowidth.css" title="Select Autowidth" /> | |
| <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> | |
| <!--[if IE]> | |
| <script src="select-autowidth.js" type="text/javascript"></script> | |
| <![endif]--> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1>Auto-width</h1> | |
| <div> | |
| <select class="autowidth"> | |
| <option>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit</option> | |
| <option>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit</option> | |
| </select> | |
| </div> | |
| <h1>No auto-width</h1> | |
| <div> | |
| <select> | |
| <option>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit</option> | |
| <option>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit</option> | |
| </select> | |
| </div> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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| select.autowidth { | |
| width: 200px; /* change this */ | |
| } | |
| select.autowidth.autowidth-expand { | |
| width: auto; | |
| z-index: 9999; | |
| position: absolute; | |
| } |
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| $(document).ready(function() { | |
| $('select.autowidth') | |
| .bind('click', function () { | |
| $(this).toggleClass('autowidth-clicked'); | |
| } ) | |
| .bind('focus mouseover', function () { | |
| // In some cases, dummy SELECT may prevent container from resizing on z-index change: | |
| // $(this).after( $('<select><option/></select>').addClass('autowidth-dummy').css('visibility', 'hidden') ); | |
| $(this).addClass('autowidth-expand'); | |
| $(this).removeClass('autowidth-clicked'); | |
| } ) | |
| .bind('mouseout', function () { | |
| if (!$(this).hasClass('autowidth-clicked')) { | |
| $(this).removeClass('autowidth-expand'); | |
| // In some cases, dummy SELECT may prevent container from resizing on z-index change: | |
| // $(this).next('.autowidth-dummy').remove(); | |
| } | |
| } ) | |
| .bind('blur', function () { | |
| $(this).removeClass('autowidth-expand autowidth-clicked'); | |
| // In some cases, dummy SELECT may prevent container from resizing on z-index change: | |
| // $(this).next('.autowidth-dummy').remove(); | |
| } ); | |
| } ); |
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Hi,
You might be interested in a fully fledged jQuery plugin to solve this problem. It supports non-breaking layout and keyboard interactions. And does not require to modify HTML markup. check out the demo page: http://powerkiki.github.com/ie_expand_select_width/
disclaimer: I coded that thing, patches welcome :)