Selects random list item from Main 'Button'

[YellowSwordfish]

When there is not enough real estate top or bottom to display the full list, clicking on the 'button' to open the list actually selects one of the list items instead.
This is using selectmenu as a dropdown select list replacement. All items in the select list are urls.
(Browsers FF4/IE9 both OS/X and Win - No public site available yet)

[fnagel]

Please provide a demo (see here how to easily post a bug: #61).

[YellowSwordfish]

As I said originally there is no public facing example I can show you. I will not be able to get that up for at least another 3 months at which time we may have had to abandon using selectmenu which would be very sad.
The best I could offer at the moment would be a screen video of the effect. If that is of interest then please let me know where to send it I can can get on to make that for you. Sorry! And I can provide code example of course.
Selectmenu is looking so promising I would welcome any opportunity to help you with problem identification.
Andy

[fnagel]

Am I right your problem occurs with selectmenu placed like the one of the bottom of this site? http://www.taxofit.de/

If you're not able to post a example which reproduces the issue Im afraid I can not give you support here, as Im not able to reproduce the issue.A video would be helpfull but Im not quite sure if its enough, so please post as much code snippets as possible.

Are you sure you're using the latest version of the widget?

[fnagel]

Please give feedback!

[YellowSwordfish]

Did you get the video link I sent?

[fnagel]

No, Im sorry. Where did you sent the link?

[YellowSwordfish]

Apologies. Too many distractions!
I have made a small video of the effect. You can view it here:
http://www.yellowswordfish.com/video/SelectMenu-small.mov

We are the authors of a WordPress forum plugin. You will see that the SelectMenu operates fine when it has the available space but when there is not enough browser space to display it it pops up and automatically selects one of the items. In this case they are all links to other forum pages so the selected page is simply loaded.

This may be an issue for anyone with a potentially long list to display.

I have updated the code to your latest build but the problem remains.
Thanks - Andy

[fnagel]

Ahh I see. This is a problem because of a very long list, probanly with more height than the browser window itself, correct? I must resize the browser window in order to see the problem.

There is currently no functionality which tests for this but you should try using the maxHeight option. Selectmenu will show a scrollbar if needed. Perhaps this could fix you problem?

Could you please post the select HTML you are using in the video?
I would love to link your forum to the real world examples if this would be ok for you. Is there a public demo?

[fnagel]

There has been a change in the height algorythm, please test the latest commit and give feedback. See here for more info: #133 (comment)
Please try with maxHeihgt options set and without!

I would love to link your forum to the real world examples if this would be ok for you. Is there a public demo?

[YellowSwordfish]

Apologies for the delay. We had a death in the family which took me away from home for several weeks.

I have downloaded your latest development build and yes - this does improve the behaviour remarkably. With or without MaxHeight set. However, it still shows the same behaviour the very first time it is opened when the display space is limited. Then subsequent openings behave very well. So generally things are looking pretty good. Thank you.

I do have one simple request although I understand that it is non-standard. For the reason of supplying our often non-technical users with simplified CSS, we do not append SelectMenu to 'body' but edit the code to target a specific div id. I wondered if it would be possible for that to be added to the initialising option array? Yes - non-standard UI I know but it is worth asking!

I would expect a public facing site using our latest code utilising selectmenu will be coming sometime late July or maybe early August but not before. I am more than happy for you to link to it as a demonstration of selectmenu in use and will let you know when it goes live.

Thanks for everything - it is essentially a great component and I will keep a watch here for the next 'official' release.
Andy

[fnagel]

Naah, sorry to hear about your loss.

Mhhhhh. First opening is wrong, all following work correct. I would need a test case for that but I will give it a try. Please provide a demo fiddle or a zip.

Im currently planning some refactoring within the HTML injecting. Please open a new issue for that request and I will see what I can do :-)

Great, please send me a message or use the issue for real world examples: #60

Please see here as there actually is a "official" release ;-)
#140

[fnagel]

There is a feature request for your appedTo question. See here: #155 I will implement this soon!

I will close this issue if there are no more open questions, ok?

[YellowSwordfish]

Apologies for being quiet.
We are hoping and planning to take the new code live over the next 1 or 2 weeks and I was going to wait and let you know so you can see the selectmenu in action with the current issues.
I will post here as soon as it is there for you to look at.
Thanks
Andy

[YellowSwordfish]

You can see the selectmenu in action now on our site. This is still very much an alpha version so there amy be other issues!
You should see the selectmenu - 'New and Recently Updated Topics' . It will still misbehave if the browser window is too small to accommodate the whole list.
see here: http://simple-press.com/support-forum/
Thanks
Andy

[fnagel]

Would you mind testing the latest version? I hopefully get rid of all these kind of problems.
You would do me a favor as the latest release is about to be tagged as v1.2.