[Plugin: Contact Form 7] How to have a dropdown menu so clients can choose more than one option?

Nice site, Doug.
Yes, the latest version of Contact Form 7 does have a dropdown option, and has a checkbox for “Allow Multiple Selections”.

I just tested it, it works great. I don’t use these that often, and I recalled that with Windows, to do multi-selections you need to use the CTRL key. What it is for Mac I have no idea, but they must have some shortcut for that.

I would add a reminder of the multi-select process on your form – if a geek like me doesn’t remember, users won’t either. ??

Cheers, Dave

Dave,

Thanks for the reply – and the answer! I didn’t even think to make another drop down and check on that (doh! – smacks forehead). Since I already had a drop down in the form field I just assumed there wasn’t any option for multiple selections.

Now is there a way to enter the size for that drop down? Like to make it wider, taller, shorter? I didn’t see any size options when I made the second one.

Thanks again ??

Doug,
Glad that helped – I see it’s already in there! Yeah, Contact Form 7, while totally fantastic, gives you a fairly blank slate with styling, probably assuming that in most cases, it’s hard to guess what a site owner will like.

That’s where the CSS geek like me comes in. ?? I grabbed a little piece of your CSS code (style-Stone.css), and as an example, I stuck a width on these. This is just an example, and it’s a blunt instrument, because it makes not just “select”, but input and textarea a certain width. You could play with some of those individually if desired.

input, select, textarea {
font:1em helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
width:400px;
}

Really nice work, btw… characters and drawing style – awesome. If I were on a project with a lot of art, it would be good to have you on the team, for sure.

Dave

Dave,

I tried inserting that code into my stylesheet and it broke my web site. I had a moment of utter terror when all I saw was a blank page and in large black letters “Database Error”.

Thankfully, after I removed that code and refreshed everything came back (…whew…).

Um, I guess I won’t be doing that again, lol.

I managed to widen the other boxes, but I just need to figure out how to widen the select services box. It gets wider if I type in something long, but other than that it stays the length of the longest typed entry.

If you ever need me on your team just let me know ??

Wow, database error editing CSS. That’s a new one on me, but I know that various hosts have trouble with WP’s CSS editor due to file permissions and other fun stuff.

In any case, if you just wanted to change the select box, something like this would work, and it would only effect that spot on the Contact Form 7 rather than your whole site.

.selectservices select {
  width:400px;
}

If you’re having trouble updating the CSS in the admin, you could download the CSS file via FTP, back it up, make the change, upload, and season to taste. If anything goes wrong, you simply upload the backup. I had to do that with one client who had really sucky hosting.

Best, Dave