Can I open a dropdownlist using jQuery

Question

For this dropdownlist in HTML:

Country

I would lik

Answer 1

This is spruced up from the answers just above and uses the length/number of options to conform to how many options there actually are.

Hope this helps somebody get the results they need!

    function openDropdown(elementId) {
        function down() {
            var pos = $(this).offset(); // remember position
            var len = $(this).find("option").length;
                if(len > 20) {
                    len = 20;
                }

            $(this).css("position", "absolute");
            $(this).css("zIndex", 9999);
            $(this).offset(pos);   // reset position
            $(this).attr("size", len); // open dropdown
            $(this).unbind("focus", down);
            $(this).focus();
        }
        function up() {
            $(this).css("position", "static");
            $(this).attr("size", "1");  // close dropdown
            $(this).unbind("change", up);
            $(this).focus();
        }
        $("#" + elementId).focus(down).blur(up).focus();
    }