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    <p>I'm in a bit of a situation with my HTML <strong>&lt;select&gt;</strong> dropdowns, when they are displayed in an iPhone or Android browser. I often need to render <strong>&lt;option&gt;</strong> labels that are quite long, such as for instance</p> <blockquote> <p>[AccountType] [EUR] - [Customer] - CH12 3456 7890 1234 5678 9</p> </blockquote> <p>On Android, this will render something like that:</p> <blockquote> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Eloe.png" alt="android screen"></p> </blockquote> <p>On the iPhone it's even worse. While I like the native look and feel, the cropping of the labels is a no-go. Circled in red, you'll find how the dropdown itself is rendered. I could live with that. But check out the blue popup that appears, when I click on it. The user will never find his data...</p> <h2>PLEASE, before you answer...</h2> <p>... consider these points:</p> <ul> <li>I can abbreviate some information, but I will still have cases with long option labels in the select. So no need to tell me that the IBAN could be abbreviated, etc.</li> <li>I cannot rely on CSS styling of <strong>&lt;select&gt;</strong> or <strong>&lt;option&gt;</strong> elements.</li> <li>User hunter has already proposed the <strong>&lt;optgroup&gt;</strong> tag <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4554831/html-select-element-is-abbreviated-too-much-in-iphone-or-android-browsers#4554858">here</a>. That's quite a nice idea and will be a small workaround, but is not enough, as the IBAN is still cropped by both iPhone and Android browsers :-(</li> <li>I already know the very nice looking <a href="http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_ui_selectmenu_an_aria_accessible_plugin_for_styling_a_html_select/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jQuery UI Selectmenu prototype</a>. Unfortunately, it's not yet compatible with jquery-ui 1.8.5 and there is no guarantee when it will be stable.</li> <li>I am using jquery and jquery-ui 1.8.5, so any ideas / references to plugins are very welcome.</li> <li>Any other ideas to circumvent that problem <strong>GENERALLY</strong> are welcome.</li> </ul>
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