Problems with select lists in IE

[Jakub Ś]

This issue has occured in CKEditor since version 3.0 It concerns IE6, IE7, IE8

Paste the following code:

<form action="formAct" id="myid" method="get" name="form">
	<select name="myselect" size="1"><option selected="selected" value="val1">opt1</option><option value="val2">opt2</option><option value="val3">opt3</option></select></form>
<p>
	<select name="myselect1" size="1"><option selected="selected" value="val1">opt1</option><option value="val2">opt2</option><option value="val3">opt3</option></select></p>

1. In IE8 this you can only put cursor before select element. When you press enter it is added only above the select. When the cursor is above select you can't get to it using arrow keys, but only by clicking a mouse.

2. In IE6 and IE7 no matter whether you place the cursor before or after select (any select) new lines will be added only above. But you can write before of after select and move cursor freely.

This works perfectly in IE9, Chrome and Safari. Opera has a little different problem described in #7502 and Firefox has a different problem described in #7507