Question

I’m trying to use a dropdown in a PhoneGap app I’m writing. It uses a simple <select>:

<select>
  <option value="1">First</option>
  <option value="2">Second</option>
</select>

This works fine on Android and the iPhone (including behaving like a native drop-down would on those systems). However, it doesn’t appear to work on webOS (neither the Palm Pre itself nor the emulator).

The <select> displays properly on the screen, but when I tap on it, nothing happens–I’m not able to make a selection from the dropdown.

Why might this be?

Answer 1

Just did some testing … looks like its not a PhoneGap limitation, but in fact a webOS limitation — webOS doesn’t support select tags (wtf!). So this is a significant discovery … I wonder what other tags are unsupported.

So will have to start investigating options for this. A script which replaces tags with Mojo list selector widgets is a thought … but there may be some hurdles here.

Stay tuned to the phonegap.com blog roll for updates as we look into this.