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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12245 --- Comment #20 from Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> 2011-05-07 00:53:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #19) > Why do you need the dropdown to stay within the video? This is how the Web page layout is defined and a design requirement. It looks better that way. I'm apparently not the only Web developer that needs to do this - it has created many headaches before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/570642/height-of-an-html-select-box-dropdown http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4457232/limiting-the-displayed-height-of-a-select-drop-down http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80761 http://forums.asp.net/t/1226413.aspx http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit/form/Select.html (you'll find a gazillion more if you start searching) > Why do you need it to be the same size in all browsers? What about on platforms > that doesn't display a dropdown at all, such as the iPhone? User Interface consistency. That stuff works differently on phones and tablets is well understood and different UI features are used there. > It seems that we agree that the behavior of keeping the dropdown within the > widget/iframe/application it originates from does not match how desktop > applications behave. That is not what I am asking for. I don't want the browsers to work differently. I and an attribute that allows me to define the height of the drop-down. > Why do you want web applications to behave differently > from desktop apps? People generally aim for the opposite. I don't want HTML to work differently to desktop apps. Desktop applications allow me to restrict the length of the drop-down. For example MFC: http://pheadra.tistory.com/entry/MFC-How-to-set-ComboBox-DropDown-Height And wbPython also allows it: http://wxpython-users.1045709.n5.nabble.com/wxPython-Vertical-size-of-ComboBox-Adjustable-td2271308.html No luck with QT, which just truncates the list when you set a height. So, I wouldn't say that this is an unreasonable request - it is possible in other user interface toolkits. > Also, if you need for the dropdown to stay within a given box (such as the box > occupied by a <video>), then @size isn't enough since you also need to be able > to specify if the dropdown opens upwards or downwards. That would be an additional parameter that I cannot currently control and it might be nice to add that, too. But it's not what this bug is about. > Also, what do you expect to happen if the browser window is part-way off the > screen, such that the box that you expect the dropdown to render in would be > partly off screen? I don't want the browser to behave differently when rendering the drop-down (e.g. Firefox continues to render it when half off screen - that's fine). I only want to be able to tell it the maximum length of the drop-down rather than being restricted to whichever choice the browser implementers made. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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