Form::select() with first option disabled?

You cant add disabled option with form::select.

Just make it required it in your rules so empty value is not accepted.

@pmall

I don't want it for the whole selectbox, only for the first value. Please see my code example in line 4.

With that, my CSS Template will show the DropDown as it is here: http://htmlstream.com/preview/unify-v1.7/shortcode_form_layouts_advanced.html See Expiration Date DropDown

Thanks kay899

I had understood. You can't add disabled attribute to an option with form::select(). If you want to do it you have to write the plain html.

How I usually do this is:

    {!! Form::select('month', [null => 'Month'] + $months, null, ['class' => 'valid', 'required']) !!}
    //$month is an array passed from the controller ['January' => 1, 'etc']

Then use validation to ensure that a month has been selected. As @pmall has mentioned you cannot pass a disabled attribute from within the array to the view. If you really needed this you'll have to create it manually using a loop that has a check to see if it is the first option and if so to add the disabled attribute to it.

By the way, a selected & disabled option is a non sense.

ok, I now did my own Form::macro for that:

http://laravel.io/bin/2WWMN