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alt/title attribute for OPTION tag?
Right, basically I have a drop-down SELECT menu.
Some of the entries are very long, so I wrote some ColdFusion to cut off the end of any long entries.
However, I was wondering if it was possible to have the full entry appear as a hover like with the title attribute.
It's not vitally important, but it would be nice...
If it's relevant, here is my current code:
<select name="i_id">
<cfset MaxCharacters = 50/>
<cfoutput query="GetItems">
<option value="#i_id#" title="#i_name# #i_desc#">
<cfif i_name & " " & i_desc EQ Left(i_name & " " & i_desc,MaxCharacters)>
#i_name# #i_desc#
<cfelse>
#Left(i_name & " " & i_desc,MaxCharacters)# ...
</cfif>
</option>
</cfoutput>
</select><br/>
Some of the entries are very long, so I wrote some ColdFusion to cut off the end of any long entries.
However, I was wondering if it was possible to have the full entry appear as a hover like with the title attribute.
It's not vitally important, but it would be nice...
If it's relevant, here is my current code:
<select name="i_id">
<cfset MaxCharacters = 50/>
<cfoutput query="GetItems">
<option value="#i_id#" title="#i_name# #i_desc#">
<cfif i_name & " " & i_desc EQ Left(i_name & " " & i_desc,MaxCharacters)>
#i_name# #i_desc#
<cfelse>
#Left(i_name & " " & i_desc,MaxCharacters)# ...
</cfif>
</option>
</cfoutput>
</select><br/>
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*THE ABOVE CODE IS IE5+ SPECIFIC*
It's also very long. :/
Bearing in mind this is being generated from a database with close to 200 entries in - I could have that code outputted in loops, but it would have a long execution time I suspect.
IE-specific isn't a problem as this will be part of an admin section, which will only have one/two user(s) and they will have IE 5 or 6.
Bearing in mind this is being generated from a database with close to 200 entries in - I could have that code outputted in loops, but it would have a long execution time I suspect.
IE-specific isn't a problem as this will be part of an admin section, which will only have one/two user(s) and they will have IE 5 or 6.
Yes its really not preferred to be used, but it never-the-less is what you asked in the question.
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True. I'll give it a day and if no-one else has suggested anything better I'll let you have the points...
Okay, so when I said a day I actually meant 19 days. ;)
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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.