Html select option placeholder

How to add a placeholder to select element in html

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to add a placeholder text to a element (tag) in html.

The Html form elements like input and textarea we have a placeholder attribute to add the placeholder text.

input placeholder="Name"/> textarea placeholder="comment">textarea>

Adding placeholder to select element

In select element we don’t have a placeholder attribute but we can add it by using element with disabled , selected and hidden attribute.

select> option value="" disabled selected hidden>Choose your frameworkoption> option value="react">Reactoption> option value="Vue">Vueoption> option value="Angular">Angularoption> select>

1. The disabled attribute makes the option unable to select.
2. The selected attribute shows the text inside element opening and closing tags.
3. Whenever a user clicks on a select dropdown the hidden attribute makes this option hidden.

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How to Create a Placeholder for an HTML5 Box by Using Only HTML and CSS?

Create a Placeholder for the Box with HTML5

There does not exist a placeholder attribute for the tag. However, there are some ways of making a placeholder for the select box.

The easiest way of making a placeholder for the element is using the disabled and selected attributes with the HTML5 hidden global attribute.

Example of creating a placeholder for the box with HTML5:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> head> body> h2>Select box with a placeholder h2> select name="drinks" required> option value="" disabled selected hidden>Choose a drink option> option value="coffee">Coffee option> option value="tea">Tea option> option value="milk">Milk option> select> body> html>

Result

Here is the second method of adding a placeholder for your select box. First, you need to create your select items with the help of the tag. Then, set the disabled and selected attributes for your empty element, which is supposed to be the placeholder.

Now, you can see that the first line is like a placeholder field. It will be undetectable but still visible.

Example of creating a placeholder for the box with an unselectable line:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> head> body> h2>Select box with a placeholder h2> select name="drinks" required> option value="" disabled selected>Choose a drink option> option value="coffee">Coffee option> option value="tea">Tea option> option value="milk">Milk option> select> body> html>

To make it non-visible after the user clicks to select an option, you must set the display property to its «none» value. And also set the :invalid pseudo-class to fail to validate the contents of the box placeholder. Also, specify a color for your placeholder by using the CSS color property.

When the element is required, it allows the use of the CSS :invalid pseudo-class, which allows you to style the element when it’s in the «placeholder» state. The :invalid works here because of the empty value in placeholder option.

When a value is set, the :invalid pseudo-class is dropped. You can also optionally use the :valid pseudo-class.

Example of creating a placeholder for the box with the :required and :invalid pseudo-classes:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> style> select:required:invalid < color: #666; > option[value=""][disabled] < display: none; > option < color: #000; > style> head> body> h2>Select box with a placeholder h2> select name="drinks" required> option value="" disabled selected>Choose a drink option> option value="coffee">Coffee option> option value="tea">Tea option> option value="milk">Milk option> select> body> html>

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Как установить placeholder для select?

Как для браузера safary 5.1.7 for windows опустить placeholder в textarea? — HTML, CSS
/*общий*/ textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder < line-height :3; ><textarea.

Стили для разных placeholder
Приветствую всех! Есть две формы на странице (в шапке — форма обратного звонка, в теле — форма.

Как уровнять placeholder и value ?
Имеются два поля, одно из которых обязательно к заполнению: <input type="text" .

Как в firefox опустить placeholder?
operagood firefox /*firefox*/ @-moz-document url-prefix() < .

select> option value="" disabled selected>Выберите из списка/option> option value="hurr">Значение 1/option> /select>

vovandr, если открыть список, то 1-й элемент «Выберите из списка» также виден. А как его убрать?
Про этот ваш метод я знал

Сообщение от phpk

option value="" disabled selected style='display:none;'>выберите из списка/option>

select style="color:gray" onchange="this.style.color='black'"> option value="" style="display:none">please select/option> option value="1" style="color:black">value 1/option> option value="2" style="color:black">value 2/option> /select>

select> option selected disabled hidden>Выберите/option> option>1/option> option>2/option> option>3/option> /select>

Как вставить иконку с FontAwesome в Placeholder?
Как можно вставить иконку с FontAwesome в Placeholder в форме? <form action="#" method="POST">.

Как поменять цвет текста внутри placeholder?
почему этот код не работает? <input type="search" placeholder="test"> input< color.

Как задать одинаковую ширину для input и для select?
Подскажите пожалуйста, как при адаптивной вёрстке сделать одинаковую ширину для поля input и для.

Установить атрибут placeholder в input type=text
Всем привет!:) имеется <input type = "text" name = "name" /> и <input type = "button" name =.

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How to Show a Placeholder for a Tag

Styling native HTML form fields – especially select fields – with CSS has always been a little tricky. Recently I was confronted with the task of creating a select field with a placeholder value so that the select field blends in nicely with other form fields on the page.

The problem of custom styled select elements is a hard one. Styling a select form field in a particular way is often impossible. For that reason, many websites are replacing select elements with a custom-built solution powered by HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Most of the time, this is a pretty bad idea. It is tough to get accessibility right when building a custom form element. Many of those custom-built select form fields do not work with screen readers at all or are very hard to use on mobile devices.

I recommend you to avoid building custom form elements at all costs. If you have to use a custom-styled solution, use a battle-tested library instead of rolling your own.

Styling a Disabled Option Element

In my case, it was not necessary to swap the native HTML select field with a fake select field. The problem at hand is how to display a placeholder inside a select field.

At first, I didn’t realize that the HTML select element does not support the placeholder attribute; I just assumed it does. Next, I tried using a disabled but default selected option element and setting the font color to the same grey as the input placeholder element. And this works in Firefox, but in WebKit and Blink based browsers, this does not work either.

Pure CSS Solution

After playing around and noticing that you can change the color of the select element itself, I worked on the idea of setting the color of the select element to placeholder grey as long as a disabled option is selected and changing the color to the default color as soon as the value changes.

After coming up with a simple JavaScript-powered solution, my “somehow this has to work without JavaScript” sense tingled again. After some research, I found out I could use native browser form validation with the required attribute and the :invalid pseudo-class to achieve the effect I was looking for.

Avoiding JavaScript at All Costs

The problem with this solution is, that it only works for required form fields. To circumvent the need for JavaScript we can avoid using a placeholder in optional select fields altogether by providing a neutral default option like you can see with the second select field in the CodePen above.

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Sprinkles of JavaScript

Making select fields required or provide a default value for optional select fields might not be possible all of the time. Some sprinkles of JavaScript can solve this problem once and for all.

By setting the initial placeholder grey color of the element with JavaScript, we are save in case the user has disabled JavaScript, JavaScript didn’t load, the Browser couldn’t execute our JavaScript code or any other reason why JavaScript can be not available.

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How do I make a placeholder for a ‘select’ box?

In HTML, placeholder attribute is present for creating a placeholder, but unfortunately it isn’t available for the select box.

Create Placeholder for select

We can use the option tag to define an option in a select list. The value attribute of the option tag is used for this. Here we have set List of Technologies as the placeholder text −

Example

Let us now see the complete example −

DOCTYPE html> html> head> style> select < appearance: none; background: yellow; width: 100%; height: 100%; color: black; cursor: pointer; border: 2px dashed orange; border-radius: 4px; >.select < position: relative; display: block; width: 10em; height: 3em; line-height: 3; overflow: hidden; border-radius: .25em; padding-bottom: 10px; >style> head> body> h1>Programming Coursesh1> p>We have covered the following programming technologies:p> div class="select"> select name="st" id="st"> option value="">List of Technologiesoption> option value="1">Pythonoption> option value="2">Javaoption> option value="3">Coption> option value="4">C++option> option value="5">Rubyoption> option value="6">Kotlinoption> option value="7">GOoption> option value="8">C#option> select> div> body> html> 
 

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Create Placeholder for select and disable it

Since the placeholder won’t be select by the user and is only for displaying a text, we need to disable it. We will disable it using the disabled attribute of the tag. This attribute disables the option −

Example

Let us see the example now −

DOCTYPE html> html> head> style> select < appearance: none; background: yellow; width: 100%; height: 100%; color: black; cursor: pointer; border: 2px dashed orange; border-radius: 4px; >.select < position: relative; display: block; width: 10em; height: 3em; line-height: 3; overflow: hidden; border-radius: .25em; padding-bottom: 10px; >style> head> body> h1>Programming Coursesh1> p>We have covered the following programming technologies:p> div class="select"> select name="st" id="st"> option value="" disabled selected>Select any Technologyoption> option value="1">Pythonoption> option value="2">Javaoption> option value="3">Coption> option value="4">C++option> option value="5">Rubyoption> option value="6">Kotlinoption> option value="7">GOoption> option value="8">C#option> select> div> body> html> 
 

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