Empty fields in Drop/Down

[Former Community Member]

How do I add an empty field to a Drop/Down? I want it to be selectable. Currently, once I select a value, and want to go back to empty, there is no way to go back to when nothing was selected.

[Former Community Member]

Nobody knows? Ideally, I would like to click Del after making a selection, this would zero out the drop-down to the empty choice. However, this does not happen. Once you have made a selection, it cannot be removed by keystroke.

[Former Community Member]

Simply add a few spaces to the object>field list items box. Then when you sort your list into alphabetical order, the blank field will appear at the top of the list.

[Former Community Member]

It appears at the top of the list, but it cannot be zeroed out. For instance, I can hit 'Space', and the item that was inserted with addItem("       ", 0), will be selected. But if I use 'Del' key, drop-down will not be zeroed out, if a selection has already been made, and addItem("", 0) was used.

[Former Community Member]

Or forget "Del" key. If i have a drop-down, with



addItem("one");

addItem("two");

addItem("three");



when I load the form, nothing is selected. Once I make a selection, and tab out, I can now never again have an empty selection. I don't know what the solution is, probably is a bug, that drop-downs with non-empty values are shown as empty on form load.

[Former Community Member]

I don't think you can actually create an "empty" field, what I usually do is create a list item with just a space and have that be the first entry. Does this not work for your needs?

[Former Community Member]

It works, but the only way to select this by key is by hitting {Space}. If I add an item with addItem("", 0) {completely empty}. This is not selectable by keystroke.