Select

An advanced select box that provides a set of options to choose from.

Select control

Adding Select

You can easily add a Select control during initialization of a form:

var form = new dhx.Form("form_container", {
    rows: [
        {
            type: "select",
            label: "select",
            labelInline: true,
            labelWidth: "50px",
            width:"200px",
            options: [
                {
                    value: "1",
                    content: "1"
                },
                {
                    value: "2",
                    content: "2"
                },
                {
                    value: "3",
                    content: "3"
                },
                {
                    value: "4",
                    content: "4"
                }
            ]        
        }  
    ]
});

Attributes

You can provide the following attributes in the configuration object of a select:

type - (string) the type of a control, set it to "select"
id - (string) the id of a control, auto-generated if not set
options - (array) an array of Select options, each option is an object with a set of key:value pairs - attributes of options and their values
value - (string) the initial value of the select control
icon - (string) the name of an icon from the used icon font
validation - (function) the validation function, takes as a parameter the value to validate and returns true/false to indicate the result of validation
parent - (string) the id of the parent control
width - (string) the width of a control
height - (string) the height of a control
css - (string) adds style classes to a control
disabled - (boolean) defines whether a control is enabled (false) or disabled (true)
label - (string) specifies a label for a control
labelWidth - (string) sets the width of the label of a control
hiddenLabel - (boolean) invisible label that will be used to identify the input on the server side
labelInline - (boolean) defines the position of a label: true - to set a label inline with a control
name - (string) the name of a control
help - (string) adds a help message to a control
preMessage - (string) a message that contains instructions for interacting with the control
successMessage - (string) a message that appears in case of successful validation of the control value
errorMessage - (string) a message that appears in case of error during validation of the control value
gravity - (boolean) arranges form controls evenly throughout the container, depending on the direction of layout ("cols" or "rows"), true by default