Html Select Dropdowns Are Not Working in Android Webview

Html Select Dropdowns Are Not Working in Android Webview

The Browser useragent version:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5"

The basic HTML Code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test Pages</title>
        <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
        <meta name="msapplication-tap-highlight" content="no">
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
        <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <select>
                <option>One</option>
                <option>two</option>
                <option>three</option>
                <option>four</option>
                <option>five</option>
            </select>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

This seems to be working on UIWebView(iPhone) and the native browsers. Only android webView is having the issue.Any help will be appreciated.The webview is a cordova activity

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1 Answer

Answer by @mattstow from here

The Android Browser's rendering of <select>s is buggy and will remove the normal styling if a background or border is applied.

Since <select>s not looking like <select>s is a pretty big usability issue, your best bet is to not style them for this browser only.

Unfortunately, there's no pure CSS way of selecting/excluding the Android Browser, so I recommend you use Layout Engine (), which will add a class of .browser-android to the <html> tag.

You could then style all <select>s except on Android Browser, like so:

html:not(.browser-android) select {
    background: #0f0;
    border: 1px solid #ff0;
}
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