<select> with size attribute: iPhone renders blank

Answer 1

It appears that people here might not be fully understanding the issue. The problem is that the iOS browser will not render the label for the unselectable first field, which would typically be a "Please select ..." type indicator. If it is not selected, iOS renders it as blank. This is not desirable, because there are choices for the user to make, but the field appears as blank.

You cannot also set it programatically selected to get the "Please select" to display, because if the field is required, the form validation no longer works, as the browser considers the first field as selected, even though it is flagged as unselectable.

The "Bug" is that iOS browser will not display the label for the first field, when it is set as unselectable.