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I have a form where I have a selectfield. This field is required. I want to add a "Please Choose" text which should be disabled. If the user hasn't choosed anything and "Please Choose" is still displayed and he tries to submit the form, I want the validation to fail.

How can I do that?

I first tried to disable the option "please choose" with jQuery like this

$( document ).ready(function() { $('option[value="please_choose"]').attr( "disabled", true ); });

This worked, but the text "please choose" wasn't displayed anymore. So I tried
$('div[data-value="bitte_waehlen"]').attr( "disabled", true );
which wasn't working at all.

However, even I could get it working with jQuery, there is still no validation. How can I check
"If the user choosed the option with 'please_choose' and submitted the form, then fail"?

Hi insane415,

Please try adding =Please Choose as the first line in the Options box.

Bob

Hi,

You should have this at the first line in the options box:
=Please choose

Which passes an empty value and so the validation will fail.

Best regards,
Max

Hi Max,

there is a forum bug here. The = sign in my post disappears if I use 'color' tags round it.

Bob

I have the same question, but I preferre to add "disabled" to option.
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What can I do to get a dropdown like:

<select>
  <option value="volvo" disabled>Volvo</option>
  <option value="saab">Saab</option>
  <option value="vw">VW</option>
  <option value="audi">Audi</option>
</select>

Hi hekla,
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Set Volvo as the first option with no value.
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Bob