I don\'t know if this is possible, and if not, if someone can throw out optional ideas, but I\'m attempting to display a drop down of different fonts (specifically, font\'s
You should wrap each option
tag in an optgroup
tag and then style that as:
<select>
<optgroup style="font-family:arial">
<option>Arial</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup style="font-family:verdana">
<option>veranda</option>
</optgroup>
<optgroup style="font-family:other">
<option>other</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
All options mentioned above didnt display thing correct on OSX Safari. I managed to get things correct by using bootstrap:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="nl">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>font test</title>
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 10.5" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yourpaththere/css/bootstrap.min.css" async />
</head>
<body>
<style>
@font-face {font-family: edwardian;src:local("edwardian"),url('yourpathhere/font/edwardian.TTF');font-weight: normal;}
.edwardian{font-family: edwardian; font-size: 30px;}
.arial{font-family: arial;}
.times{font-family: times;}
.verdana{font-family: verdana;}
.helvetica{font-family: helvetica;}
</style>
<div id="fontdropdown1" class="dropdown" style="width: 300px;">
<button class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="menu1" data-toggle="dropdown">Kies een lettertype
<span class="caret"></span></button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="menu1">
<li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" class="arial">Arial</a></li>
<li role="presentation" class="divider"></li>
<li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" class="times">Times</a></li>
<li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" class="verdana">Verdana</a></li>
<li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" class="helvetica">Helvetica</a></li>
<li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" class="edwardian">Edwardian</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- test font dropdown -->
<!-- jQuery (necessary for Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins) -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourpathhere/js/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourpathhere/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Maybe you can use javascript? Can you try this ?
<script>
myObj = document.getElementById("tahoma");
myObj.style.font = "Tahoma";
myObj.style.color = "red";
// Change anything else that you like!
</script>
<option id="tahoma .....>
I used a hackish-style method to do it.
Because I needed to style the select tag and wanted to customize a couple more things, I used the Stylish Select plugin for jQuery and attached the font-family css attribute to the parent element (which was a list tag).
That worked with little code and was cross-browser compatible.
Give the font name to option value. Then you can set them all with jquery.
Here is an example:
You can add new font easily like this:
<option value="myFontName">My Font Name</option>
$("#selectfont").each(function(){
$(this).children("option").each(function(){
$(this).css("fontFamily",this.value);
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<select id="selectfont">
<option value="tangerine">Tangerine</option>
<option value="tahoma">Tahoma</option>
<option value="times new roman">Times New Roman</option>
</select>
You cannot set the font of the <option>
tag but you could create a list with specific styles (as you would expect)
Here's everything I've been trying:
$("select.js option:eq(0), ul li:eq(0)").css("fontFamily", "tangerine");
$("select.js option:eq(1), ul li:eq(1)").css("fontFamily", "tahoma");
$("select.js option:eq(2), ul li:eq(2)").css("fontFamily", "times new roman");
h1 {
font-size: 1.2em;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #777;
}
.tangerine {
font-family: tangerine;
}
.tahoma {
font-family: tahoma;
}
.timesnewroman {
font-family: times new roman;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1>Set with jQuery</h2>
<select id="js">
<option>Tangerine</option>
<option>Tahoma</option>
<option>Times New Roman</option>
</select>
<div> </div>
<h1>Set with CSS</h2>
<select id="css">
<option class="tangerine">Tangerine</option>
<option class="tahoma">Tahoma</option>
<option class="timesnewroman">Times New Roman</option>
</select>
<div> </div>
<h1>List</h2>
<ul>
<li>Tangerine</li>
<li>Tahoma</li>
<li>Times New Roman</li>
</ul>