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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu Perform: Part 1

Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points
Posted by Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points

select options are not clickable like what i see at the end of the video , can you see anything wrong in my code?

select options are not clickable like what i see at the end of the video , can you see anything wrong in my code?

//Create a select and append it to the menu
var $select = $('<select></select>');
$('#menu').append($select);
// cycle over menu items and 
$('#menu a').each(function(){
  var $anchor = $(this);
  // create an option for each one of em
  var $option = $('<option></option>');
  // options value is the href of the link
  $option.val($anchor.attr('href'));
  // options text is the text of the link
  $option.text($anchor.text());
  // append option to the select
  $select.append($option);
});

i also don't get any errors in the console . idk whats the problem but when i hover over the options the background of em don't get blue like what i see at the end of the video and they seem to be unclickable!

-- U P D A T E -- now i checked again and it actually works with my up and down keys on keyboard but they are definitely unclickable! WEIRD!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Without knowing what your HTML was like, I made up some that seemed to go with this code and all the items in the generated select were clickable.

For a more thorough analysis, show the rest of the code. Even better, you can share the entire project if you make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.