Hi everyone! 

I know with the switch around with the html purifier a lot of stuff changed. Are we not able to make select menus anymore? I've tried all the variations I could think of and I can't get the html to work.

Do you mean like a clickable menu that shows multiple options in a dropdown list? I don't see the select tag as something that is whitelisted so it will probably not work in the purifier's current version. I'm assuming this was due to its use in form tags which are blacklisted. Since the select tag can be used independently of forms though, Sam might be able to get it added if she feels like it's safe to do so. I personally don't see a way that this particular tag could be abused, but I defer to the staff to make this determination.

Hopefully you get an official answer soon! Bumping for you!

We don't have select tags enabled because the purifer is set to disallow the elements of a form because they can be used maliciously. To allow those drop downs we would need to do select and option tags, and off the top of my head I can't think of a way those alone could be abused, but I'll need to look into it further.

No worries! I was just wondering because I wanted to make a point chart without taking up a lot of space (:

So I was bored and decided to code an alternative to the select tag ^^ It's just fancy divs and works as well as a faux element can (demo here). You can copy the code from there, or from here:

HTML: Here
CSS: Here

I wouldn't recommend editing the css unless you're very comfortable with it and know what each element is doing. I didn't add any styling aside from background color, font color, and border color, so everything in the CSS is required for the faux-select to work. You can add stuff and adjust stuff, but you shouln't take any stuff out :P

The default appearance is white background with black border and black text. The first bold element goes around the first line and will be the color of your layout's bold text (it also has the arrow). You can then add bold elements, italic elements, anything else afterwards and the styles from your layout should apply like normal.

It "expands" on hover, so no clicking to make it work, and it's removed from the flow of the page so it won't shift your layout content when you hover over it.

The only thing that's possibly problematic is that it has to display as a block element, so you can't fit it into a paragraph like you could a select. The purifier will end your paragraph element and push the faux-select to a new line, and then whatever comes after is pushed to a new line by the faux-select itself. But that's really just a cosmetic thing; it works very nicely overall.

Enjoy! 

You are a legend mango. I will def use this, thanks

Mango to the rescue! :D < 3

Thanks mango! I'm super comfortable messing with CSS (been doing that like 10 years or so now :D) but the html stuff through this purifier is a mess haha! Can't wait for the time to mess around with what you've come up with

Yay! Thank you, Mango :).