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I am trying to get rid of an empty option at the top of my select. This solution works in Chrome but not in IE as IE doesn't support display:none on options.

<option value="" style="display:none"></option>

What would be the best way to hide it? I'm using AngularJS framework and tried plenty of solutions like ng-if but none of them work...

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  • stackoverflow.com/questions/20373558/… Commented Aug 6, 2018 at 10:09
  • Your solution will not work in IE. If you are using AngularJS anyway, what about just editing the DOM and removing the <option>? If you need the <option> in another context, you can dynamically add/remove it. Commented Aug 6, 2018 at 10:11
  • I have seen that topic and I can't see how any of the answers is actually a reasonable choice. PS: I am not using jQuery. Commented Aug 6, 2018 at 10:13
  • If you have a reference to the select element, then select.removeChild(select.options[0]) will do the job. Commented Aug 6, 2018 at 10:13
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    Instead of fix in the wrong way, you shouldn't populate the empty options in the select element... Commented Aug 6, 2018 at 10:30

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Okay, I've eventually came up with this solution. Isn't the prettiest but is a spot on fix for me

<option ng-if="false" value=""></option>
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