Enhanced country selection with Css and Javascript
Posted by Emanuele Feronato on 07/23/06 in Css, Javascript, Tutorials
How many times you had to choose your country in a form, with a old, simple popup?
Time to change the way you choose your country (or anything else) with a bit of Css and Javascript.
I am showing the example in a iframe not to mess with WordPress styles.
As you can see, when you move the mouse over the text input, a list with (almost) every world country and flag appears, and when you click on a country, its ISO code is displayed into the text input.
When you move the mouse out of the country list, it closes.
How can it be made?
Let' see the content of the main page
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<style type="text/css">
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body{margin:0px;font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;background-color:#e5e5e5}
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a{
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position:relative;
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z-index:24;
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}
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a:hover{
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z-index: 25;
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background-color: #ff0}
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a span{
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display: none
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}
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a:hover span{
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display: block;
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position:absolute;
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top: 10px;
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left: 20px;
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width: 200px;
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border: 1px solid #000000;
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}
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input{
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width:30px;
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font-family:verdana
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}
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</style>
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</head>
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<form id="countrysel" method="get" name="countrysel">
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</form>
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other content here other content here other content here
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</body>
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</html>
The trick is in the <a> and <span> css use, with a display attribute changing on hover status.
It's easiest to see than to explain.
Let's look at line 34, when I call the iframe I simply load an ordered list with a javascript to communicate with the "parent" page.
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
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<style type="text/css">
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body{margin:0px;background-color: #000000}
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ul{margin:0px;padding:0px;margin-left: 1px;padding-left: 0;list-style-type: none;font-family: verdana;font-size:11px;text-transform: capitalize;}
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img{ vertical-align: middle}
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a{display: block;width: 200px;background-color: #f5f5f5;padding:4px;}
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a:link, a:visited{color: #000000;text-decoration: none;}
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a:hover{background-color: #ffaf2e;color: #000000;font-weight:bold;}
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</style>
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</head>
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...
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Look how I set the menu starting with an unordered list with Css (lines 5-10) and how I pass ISO values to the parent page (line 15 for example).
You can download the whole work here, check 2 html files and give me feedback or suggestion about the use of this feature.
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Spiketmr | Aug 1, 2006 | Reply
Great script. Thanks alot.
Ajay | Aug 18, 2006 | Reply
Gr8 work…Can i use it..in my commercial website..without much modification in the code.
Emanuele Feronato | Aug 18, 2006 | Reply
Of course… and do not forgeto to show me the final result
metz | Sep 26, 2006 | Reply
Bugs like a hillbilly in Opera.
saeed | Jan 1, 2007 | Reply
its very intersted
Kerim Incedayi | Jan 2, 2007 | Reply
doesnt work with IE7… but IE7 doesnt work much anyways so no worries.. lol :P
Thomas | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
it does work in ie7, but ie7 that you used was probably beta…
amazing! there’s great need for this in almost every website! thanks!
Thomas | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
oh … i see what you mean, kerim. when i downloaded it and view it won’t work! sorry about that!
Ste | Oct 13, 2007 | Reply
Dont work in firefox!!!
Beenish | Oct 30, 2007 | Reply
Please provide me the source code for this.
I have a big list of values, which i want
to display like this.
Thanks,
Ben
Kevin | Nov 22, 2007 | Reply
Can you add a state/territory and zip code. Thank you