title: Bootstrap 3 dropdown select
body: <p>We are trying re-implement our sign-up form with bootstrap. Our sign up form contains a drop-down list which represents a company type. I have searched extensively online but I do not see any example where a form input would be a drop down.</p>
  
  <p>Bootstrap gives a ton of examples of drop-downs related to various action but what I need is a drop down input. I have come up with two solutions:</p>
  
  <p>First:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;label&gt;Type of Business&lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;select class="form-control"&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;small&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;medium&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;option&gt;large&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There is a problem here: although the box itself is styled correctly the drop-down itself has no styles applied. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfStO.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Second version:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="btn-group"&gt;
      &lt;button type="button" class="form-control btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"&gt;
          Select Business type &lt;span class="caret"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;/button&gt;
      &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu"&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;small&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;medium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;large&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This one looks nice:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NjG5W.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>but it's a button. When an option is selected, I do not want to perform any action all I want is to change text and bind the selection with a corresponding input field. </p>
  
  <p>Both of these approaches seams to be a wrong choice for my action. I refuse to believe that Bootstrap does not contain a simple drop-down single select component bound to an input field.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing ? Please help.</p>