#9146 closed bug (notabug)

Opened March 08, 2013 08:32PM UTC

Closed March 09, 2013 02:17AM UTC

select drop down does not work as Tab name in non-WebKit browsers

Reported by: mts7 Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: none
Component: ui.tabs Version: 1.10.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

http://jsfiddle.net/8dLkg/4/

jQuery: 1.7.2 and 1.9.1

browsers: Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer

When clicking and giving the select focus, the options are displayed, but not selectable. When clicking with the select element already having the focus, the options are not displayed.

Having a select element as the tab name only has selectable values in Safari and Chrome. Allow all browsers to use the select element as intended.

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Changed March 09, 2013 02:17AM UTC by tj.vantoll comment:1

resolution: → notabug
status: new → closed

Hi mts7,

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery UI project. Having a <select> within an <a> is invalid HTML and is a strange thing to be doing from a UX perspective. Event if we wanted to support this there's not a whole lot we could do because browsers handle this situation different natively. WebKit based browsers will allow you to select an option here whereas Firefox will not http://jsfiddle.net/rdTfy/.