I use simple_form in my app.
How do i give the blank value in my selects a different text than "" ?
I just find an option to include blank or not.
Ben,
It depends on how you are constructing your options for select. If you're doing it like the code below, just pass a string into the :include blank.
select("post", "person_id", Person.all.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, {:include_blank => 'Some text here'})
If you're setting the options with a options_for_select(), then you can do something like the following:
options_for_select([["Dollar", "$"], ["Kroner", "DKK"]])
With the value="" being the second value in the array and the name that shows up in the dropdown being first. So in your case, you could change the second answer to look like this:
options_for_select([["Some text here", ""], ["Dollar", "$"], ["Kroner", "DKK"]])
include_blank
, use prompt: 'Which person?'
It will have a blank value, but the display text you provide. include_blank
only accepts a boolean -- it does not accept a string to display - David Hempy 2017-12-01 15:32
Instead of
:include_blank => true
Try
:include_blank => "your text here"
if this is what you are looking.
select_tag
methods but will work with select
methods. (And, yes, they are different.) Using a string for the value in the include_blank
will only provide a blank option with no string. Use prompt
in that case - Joshua Pinter 2015-06-15 21:05
If you are using the select_tag(name, option_tags = nil, options = {})
function, the correct option is :prompt => "Some text"
rather than setting a string value for select
select_tag
will accept a include_blank
option but it will NOT display the text you pass as in as the value for that option. You need to use prompt
for that. Thanks @Georgi - Joshua Pinter 2015-06-15 21:03
You can do this manually by adding ["Your Text", ""]
to the beginning of the array passed to options_for_select
, or add "<option value=\"\">#{h("Your Text"}</option>"
to beginning of the string passed to select_tag
.
:include_blank => true, disabled: "", selected: "", placeholder: "Foo Bar"
MCB 2014-09-23 15:06