26773 2014-09-10 13:11:42 +0000 Tag 2014-09-10 14:58:18 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS Basic User Interface unspecified Other other NEW http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor tantek ian jackalmage mike public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 111344 0 contributor 2014-09-10 13:11:42 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Referrer: Comment: Tag ========= <select> <option>Yes</option> <option>Long explanation goes here and much more and more</option> </select> Issue ========= Select tag takes the size of the longest option. Design will always restrict the width of the select. So lets imagine the select needs to be 200 px wide, but the option is much wider. So now you select the long option and it will be cut off. Why on Earth cant we change this element in HTML5 so if the selected value is longer than the select itself it will grow and push the data to the next line. So it will reserve space and grow taller if the option should expand to multiple lines? Would that make sense? Posted from: 88.196.5.77 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 111346 1 ian 2014-09-10 14:58:18 +0000 Seems reasonable. Probably more a CSS issue or Web Components issue, though. Trying CSS first.