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Strange behavior of drop down list in DETAILS tag

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earnshaw1943

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I have a drop down list (SELECT,OPTION) in a DETAILS tag and it doesn't seem to work properly.

Whenever you click the drop down list it instantly closes again and as a result you are unable to select anything in the list.

If I take the drop down list out of the DETAILS tag then it works just fine. I am using the latest version of Chrome, anyone else have this happen and know why it's happening??
 
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OK - sorry, the code is simple, like this:

HTML: 
<details>
        <select>
              <option>red</option>
              <option>green</option>
              <option>blue</option>
          </select>
</details>


Cheers
 
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The details tag expands and contracts no problem, and reveals the select/option drop down too.
The problem is when you click on the drop down - you cannot click an item within the dropdown because it loses focus or something - the details section still remains open. It's just the drop down list that is not behaving properly.
 
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Hi, I think I put in my original question that if I take the dropdown out of the detail tag it works fine :)
 
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Your example works for me as expected. It opens the drop down, and I can select an option. All this inside the details tag.

I'm using Chrome 21.0.

Now, considering the details tag is at this point only supported in Chrome, and that the HTML 5 spec which this tag belongs to is still in development I don't think its really worth it to spend too much time debugging it.

However, considering the example works, I'd say its something in your actual code, and/or version of Chrome.

Can you show us your actual code?

Or try this one and see if it works?
Code: 
[b][COLOR=#000080]<!DOCTYPE[/color][/b] [COLOR=#009900]html[/color][b][COLOR=#000080]>[/color][/b]
[b][COLOR=#0000FF]<html>[/color][/b]
[b][COLOR=#0000FF]<head>[/color][/b]
[b][COLOR=#0000FF]<title>[/color][/b]Details Tag[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</title>[/color][/b]
[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</head>[/color][/b]

[b][COLOR=#0000FF]<body>[/color][/b]

[b][COLOR=#0000FF]<details>[/color][/b]
[tab][tab][b][COLOR=#0000FF]<select>[/color][/b]
[tab][tab][tab]  [b][COLOR=#0000FF]<option>[/color][/b]red[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</option>[/color][/b]
[tab][tab][tab]  [b][COLOR=#0000FF]<option>[/color][/b]green[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</option>[/color][/b]
[tab][tab][tab]  [b][COLOR=#0000FF]<option>[/color][/b]blue[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</option>[/color][/b]
[tab][tab]  [b][COLOR=#0000FF]</select>[/color][/b]
[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</details>[/color][/b] 

[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</body>[/color][/b]

[b][COLOR=#0000FF]</html>[/color][/b]


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Hmmm.. I've just tried Vacunita's code and it works fine for me.
In Firefox it only displays the dropdown but in Chrome it displays an expandable "Details" block.
Using Chrome 21.0.1180.83 m

@earnshaw1943 Do you happen to have any fancy code in your css for the Details?
Cheers,
MakeItSo

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I was about to send you the whole code - but it worked before I sent it to you - the only difference is that the dropdown is being popped by some javascript (to list years from 1700 - present). So I suspsect it must be something to do with the javascript.
 
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So I suspsect it must be something to do with the javascript.
Click to expand...
Possibly.

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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

Web & Tech
 
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Aha! getting a bit closer now guys. Not really Javascript, but CSS, when I removed references to this CSS:

<link href="....jquery.ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="...jquery.ui.autocomplete.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />


it worked - however not really sure how I can get round not having these scripts....hmmm

 
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You can download them and use the local variant of them.
Then you can open these in a CSS editor and check out what they do to Details elements.
;-)

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Hmm - had a good old search of the css for the base jquery ui and I can't find anything to do with "detail" or "summary".
 
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