{"id":62,"date":"2005-02-17T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2021-01-26T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T02:41:54","slug":"show-select-option-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2005\/02\/show-select-option-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Select Option Values"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a bookmarklet<\/a> I wrote up for my own use since I wasn’t able to find something that performs a similar function (probably there IS something out there, I just wasn’t able to find it in a short amount of time \ud83d\ude42<\/tt>… It’s really for the purposes of web development (well that’s why I made it at least) when you either need to show or print out all the options that are available in a web page form drop-down (select) list. I’m sharing it here in case it can help someone else but I cannot, of course, provide any support (help getting it to work) or guarantees about it at all – use at your own “risk”, figure it out on your own time, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a screen shot example of what it does (skip below<\/a> for the bookmarklet itself):<\/p>\n

BEFORE:<\/strong><\/div>\n
\"show_select_before.gif\"<\/div>\n

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AFTER:<\/strong><\/div>\n
\"show_select_after.gif\"<\/div>\n



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NOTE: I have ONLY tested \/ used this in Firefox (1.x) on Windows<\/strong>, I won’t guarantee that it will work in anything else (it might). Drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and when viewing a web page form with drop-down \/ selects on it just click on (or select) the bookmarklet to list all the drop-down options above it.<\/p>\n

EDIT: Original Code is below:<\/div>\n\n\n
<a href=\"javascript: ShowSelects = function() { if (document.getElementsByTagName) { var selects = document.getElementsByTagName('select'); for (i=0; i<selects.length; i++) { var rng = document.createRange(); var el = selects[i]; var elwidth = el.offsetWidth; if ( elwidth != null &#038;&#038; (!isNaN(elwidth)) ) { elwidth = elwidth + 100; } else { elwidth = 'auto'; } var optscont = '<div style=\\'border: 1px solid #666; border-width: 1px 1px 0 1px; margin: 2em 0 0 0; font-size: 92%; width: '+ elwidth +';\\'>&#8216;; var opts = el.getElementsByTagName(&#8216;option&#8217;); for (j=0; j<opts.length; j++) { optscont += '<\/p>\r\n<div style=\\'border-bottom: 1px solid #666;\\'>&#8216;; if (opts[j].text == &#8221; || opts[j].value == &#8221;) { optscont += &#8216;<em>EMPTY (No Selection Value)<\/em>&#8216;; } else { optscont += opts[j].text +&#8217; (&#8216;+ opts[j].value + &#8216;)&#8217;; } optscont += &#8216;<\/div><p>&#8216;; } optscont += &#8216;<\/p><\/div><p>&#8216;; var elparent = el.parentNode; rng.setStartBefore(el); var htmlFrag = rng.createContextualFragment(optscont); elparent.insertBefore(htmlFrag, el); } }  }; ShowSelects(); void(0);&#8221;>Show Select Values<\/a><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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