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Materialize CSS - Select does not have name nor proper value in DOM

I'm having trouble understanding how materialize CSS <select> tag works.

In regular HTML select tags, you'd insert a name="" attribute, and for each option, a value="" attribute, which seem to be missing in materialize CSS.

This code:

<div class="input-field col s12">
  <select>
    <option value="" disabled selected>Choose your option</option>
    <option value="1">Option 1</option>
    <option value="2">Option 2</option>
    <option value="3">Option 3</option>
  </select>
  <label>Materialize Select</label>
</div>

renders into this in DOM:

<div class="input-field col s12 m6">
  <div class="select-wrapper"><span class="caret">▼</span>
    <input class="select-dropdown" readonly="true" data-activates="select-options-273ec07d-e7c4-e689-e2e3-6a57ff2f6293" value="Choose your option" type="text">
    <ul style="width: 296px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; opacity: 1; display: none;" id="select-options-273ec07d-e7c4-e689-e2e3-6a57ff2f6293" class="dropdown-content select-dropdown">
      <li class="disabled"><span>Choose your option</span></li><li class="active selected"><span>Option 1</span></li><li class=""><span>Option 2</span></li>
      <li class=""><span>Option 3</span></li>
    </ul>
    <select class="initialized">
          <option value="" disabled="" selected="">Choose your option</option>
          <option value="1">Option 1</option>
          <option value="2">Option 2</option>
          <option value="3">Option 3</option>
    </select>
  </div>
  <label>Materialize Select</label>
</div>

Problems I am having:

  1. Where and how do I set the name for that select element (to be represented accordingly in the rendered input element)?
  2. The values are the texts being displayed in the list. I wish to have different values than the display strings, e.g:

<option value="1">regular style</option> <option value="2">bold style</option> <option value="3">italic style</option>

Thanks all in advance :)

Solution

  • Materialize handles <select> replacement like most other libraries; follow standard HTML conventions like name="foo" or <option value="A">But I'm showing other text here</option>.

    The output will take these into consideration when creating the prettier, functional form.

    Note: The Materialize CSS documentation does show the <select> tag without most of the common elements (like name=""), but I think this is more to present the cleanest, most minimal code possible.