I\'ve got a select list like this:
OK, I searched for a few hours and I noticed that there is NO WORKING WAY to "hide" (what I mean is make the option temporally disappeared from the drop-down list) for all browsers, such as set the visibility to be hidden or style="display: none".
My final approach is: 1. Create an array to store all the options for the dropdown list. 2. Use a method to dynamically update the drop-down list according what you want to be shown.
That's it, if you want to use a drop down list without using any library
You can "hide" the option by moving it to a hidden select element or cached document fragment, then move it back when you want to show it:
var selectTool = (function() {
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
return {
hideOpt: function (selectId, optIndex) {
var sel = document.getElementById(selectId);
var opt = sel && sel[optIndex];
console.log(opt);
if (opt) {
frag.appendChild(opt);
}
},
showOpt: function (selectId) {
var sel = document.getElementById(selectId);
var opt = frag.firstChild;
if (sel && opt) {
sel.appendChild(opt);
}
}
}
}());
Then you can hide the 4th option like:
<input type="button" value="Hide option" onclick="
selectTool.hideOpt('selectlist',4);
">
and show it again using:
<input type="button" value="Show option" onclick="
selectTool.showOpt('selectlist');
">
All play code of course, but you should get some ideas. If you want to store many options, you'll need a way of referencing them so maybe store them in an object with some form of referencing scheme.
Try to disable that option with disabled attribute.
<select id="selectlist" name="selectproduct" >
<option value=""> --- Select product --- </option>
<option value="1">Product 1</option>
<option value="2">Product 2</option>
<option value="3">Product 3</option>
<option value="4" disabled="disabled">Product 4</option>
</select>
Check demo
to append the child below the list of option using java script.
`var option = document.createElement("option");
option.text = "All Users";
option.value = "all_user";
var select = document.getElementById("log_user_type");
select.appendChild(option);`
if you want to remove some option from select list you can use this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).bind("load", function() {
$('#select_list_id option[value="AB"],option[value="SK"]').remove();
});
</script>