I don't understand the methodology here...

Question

In the Web Development course, lesson Drop-Down menus, the drop-down menus are not drop-down menus. When the menu field is selected a box like an alert box flies open. Why is this not explained? Even a simple explanation in the course such as "this is what's going to happen, (selection box opening) and creating an actual drop-down menu will be covered in more detail later" would suffice.

However it's quite frustrating when the very first illustration in the lesson demonstrates the expected outcome of the lesson yet this never occurs. A rather poor lesson.

Answer 1

Bob_Li and Rain
Thanks alot for the responses, makes sense now and helped me put things in perspective.

Answer 2

Scott D ,

You haven'g shown any code to debug, so here's a reference on the select element and drop-down list.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_elem_select

Answer 3

it is unfortunate that Sololearn did not give a more in depth explanation of the select element behavior. But it really is an unusual element that behaves differently on phones.

read the explanation on the checked reply:
<Select> is a native component.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75552987/why-is-my-dropdown-list-showing-differently-on-phone-than-desktop-and-how-can-i