Question

It is a badly known issue when selects in IE show only the first letter after dynamical initialization. (See this SO question)

But what is the best way to re-render dropdowns after data binding via knockout?

Answer 1

I hadn’t seen this bug before. You could do something like.

<select data-bind="options: youroptions, value: somevalue, visible: !loading()"
</select>

Then in your code

self.loading(true);
doAjax(function(result) {
    self.youroptions(result);
    self.loading(false);
});

This would do as the fix suggests. Not very elegant.

Hope this helps.