The options in the select box must contain a placeholder

[aezazshekh]

When we open the Custom Query page, the first option in all the select boxes is blank. So instead of the blank option, we should add that placeholder option.

Custom Query page => https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/query

[aezazshekh]

Screenshot of Issue

[aezazshekh]

For example, I have added a placeholder in a select box here.

Screenshot of the Example
​https://share.cleanshot.com/TNIh8ioIaOxNuhWzWlnQ

[dd32]

This is not something we can realistically do, as the Trac software generates these for us.

This should be reported as a bug to Trac itself via ​https://trac.edgewall.org/

That being said, we can prefix an element to all <select>s via Javascript (or Trac Genshi template rewrites I guess), but would require someone to go through and make a HTML ID => Default text mapping, and at that point I'm really starting to question if the effort is worth it.

(edit: Also; a lot of those selects don't have a clear singular text, the context is provided more-or-less by the text around it, rather than the contents. The Component select is probably the only one it can be easily done for, and even then, not selecting a component is a valid query sometimes)

I'm marking this as 2nd-opinion close instead of just closing this as wontfix, unless someone feels super strongly about this.

[coffee2code]

I agree with Dion. I don't think this is worth the effort, especially since it's not straightforward, it only realistically applies to one or two selects, and context seems sufficient to infer the meaning of the inputs.