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Rob Bishop
Rob Bishop

Reputation:

Why doesn't my <select> work in IE8?

So I have a <select> element on my page, and it worked fine in all browsers until IE8 came along. I've seen all the literature about the IE7 compatibility view and how to use <meta> to force the browser into that mode. But the question still remains: why the heck does IE8 fail to display a simple <select> properly? Has anyone figured this out yet? Here are two URLs that demonstrate the problem. The first one displays properly in IE8, but only because I'm using the <meta> tag to force it into IE7 compatibility mode. The second one is identical to the first, except that I'm not forcing IE7 compatibility.

  1. http://www.currensys.com/mhw.php
  2. http://www.currensys.com/mhf.php

Anyone have any ideas?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4203

Answers (3)

Hoz1982
Hoz1982

Reputation: 1

I ha d the same problem, not solved with the display:table thing, but it was an issue with the font-family...seems that you have to use standard font only (i used fontface for my site...) so change the font family to a standard one and should be ok(i don't know why but it worked for me)

Upvotes: 0

Jesper Palm
Jesper Palm

Reputation: 7238

You have a css property setting display: table on select elements. This seems to be the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Adrian Godong
Adrian Godong

Reputation: 8911

Apparently, IE8 doesn't like one of your CSS styles.

SELECT { display: table }

Removing the above style displays the drop down list.

Update: more information from W3School, the value of "table" is not supported by IE.

Upvotes: 4

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