diff --git a/web_src/js/semanticDropdown.js b/web_src/js/semanticDropdown.js
index 14dcf63a81ae..c9144adf530b 100644
--- a/web_src/js/semanticDropdown.js
+++ b/web_src/js/semanticDropdown.js
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-/* This is a patched version of semantic.dropdown which includes a11y changes, see
-   https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/8638#issuecomment-549175290 */
-
 /*!
  * # Fomantic-UI - Dropdown
  * http://github.com/fomantic/Fomantic-UI/
@@ -41,6 +38,10 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
     moduleSelector = $allModules.selector || '',
 
     hasTouch       = ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement),
+    clickEvent      = hasTouch
+        ? 'touchstart'
+        : 'click',
+
     time           = new Date().getTime(),
     performance    = [],
 
@@ -663,27 +664,10 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
 
         bind: {
           events: function() {
-            if(hasTouch) {
-              module.bind.touchEvents();
-            }
             module.bind.keyboardEvents();
             module.bind.inputEvents();
             module.bind.mouseEvents();
           },
-          touchEvents: function() {
-            module.debug('Touch device detected binding additional touch events');
-            if( module.is.searchSelection() ) {
-              // do nothing special yet
-            }
-            else if( module.is.single() ) {
-              $module
-                .on('touchstart' + eventNamespace, module.event.test.toggle)
-              ;
-            }
-            $menu
-              .on('touchstart' + eventNamespace, selector.item, module.event.item.mouseenter)
-            ;
-          },
           keyboardEvents: function() {
             module.verbose('Binding keyboard events');
             $module
@@ -710,8 +694,8 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
             module.verbose('Binding mouse events');
             if(module.is.multiple()) {
               $module
-                .on('click'   + eventNamespace, selector.label,  module.event.label.click)
-                .on('click'   + eventNamespace, selector.remove, module.event.remove.click)
+                .on(clickEvent   + eventNamespace, selector.label,  module.event.label.click)
+                .on(clickEvent   + eventNamespace, selector.remove, module.event.remove.click)
               ;
             }
             if( module.is.searchSelection() ) {
@@ -720,24 +704,24 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                 .on('mouseup'   + eventNamespace, module.event.mouseup)
                 .on('mousedown' + eventNamespace, selector.menu,   module.event.menu.mousedown)
                 .on('mouseup'   + eventNamespace, selector.menu,   module.event.menu.mouseup)
-                .on('click'     + eventNamespace, selector.icon,   module.event.icon.click)
-                .on('click'     + eventNamespace, selector.clearIcon, module.event.clearIcon.click)
+                .on(clickEvent  + eventNamespace, selector.icon,   module.event.icon.click)
+                .on(clickEvent  + eventNamespace, selector.clearIcon, module.event.clearIcon.click)
                 .on('focus'     + eventNamespace, selector.search, module.event.search.focus)
-                .on('click'     + eventNamespace, selector.search, module.event.search.focus)
+                .on(clickEvent  + eventNamespace, selector.search, module.event.search.focus)
                 .on('blur'      + eventNamespace, selector.search, module.event.search.blur)
-                .on('click'     + eventNamespace, selector.text,   module.event.text.focus)
+                .on(clickEvent  + eventNamespace, selector.text,   module.event.text.focus)
               ;
               if(module.is.multiple()) {
                 $module
-                  .on('click' + eventNamespace, module.event.click)
+                  .on(clickEvent + eventNamespace, module.event.click)
                 ;
               }
             }
             else {
               if(settings.on == 'click') {
                 $module
-                  .on('click' + eventNamespace, selector.icon, module.event.icon.click)
-                  .on('click' + eventNamespace, module.event.test.toggle)
+                  .on(clickEvent + eventNamespace, selector.icon, module.event.icon.click)
+                  .on(clickEvent + eventNamespace, module.event.test.toggle)
                 ;
               }
               else if(settings.on == 'hover') {
@@ -755,7 +739,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                 .on('mousedown' + eventNamespace, module.event.mousedown)
                 .on('mouseup'   + eventNamespace, module.event.mouseup)
                 .on('focus'     + eventNamespace, module.event.focus)
-                .on('click'     + eventNamespace, selector.clearIcon, module.event.clearIcon.click)
+                .on(clickEvent  + eventNamespace, selector.clearIcon, module.event.clearIcon.click)
               ;
               if(module.has.menuSearch() ) {
                 $module
@@ -769,7 +753,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
               }
             }
             $menu
-              .on('mouseenter' + eventNamespace, selector.item, module.event.item.mouseenter)
+              .on((hasTouch ? 'touchstart' : 'mouseenter') + eventNamespace, selector.item, module.event.item.mouseenter)
               .on('mouseleave' + eventNamespace, selector.item, module.event.item.mouseleave)
               .on('click'      + eventNamespace, selector.item, module.event.item.click)
             ;
@@ -783,7 +767,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
               ;
             }
             $document
-              .on('click' + elementNamespace, module.event.test.hide)
+              .on(clickEvent + elementNamespace, module.event.test.hide)
             ;
           }
         },
@@ -798,7 +782,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
               ;
             }
             $document
-              .off('click' + elementNamespace)
+              .off(clickEvent + elementNamespace)
             ;
           }
         },
@@ -946,6 +930,10 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                   text,
                   value
                 ;
+                if($choice.hasClass(className.unfilterable)) {
+                  results.push(this);
+                  return true;
+                }
                 if(settings.match === 'both' || settings.match === 'text') {
                   text = module.remove.diacritics(String(module.get.choiceText($choice, false)));
                   if(text.search(beginsWithRegExp) !== -1) {
@@ -1084,6 +1072,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
           if(settings.allowAdditions || (hasSelected && !module.is.multiple())) {
             module.debug('Forcing partial selection to selected item', $selectedItem);
             $selectedItem[0].click();
+            return;
           }
           else {
             module.remove.searchTerm();
@@ -1115,7 +1104,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                 var
                   value = settings.templates.deQuote(item[fields.value]),
                   name = settings.templates.escape(
-                    item[fields.name] || item[fields.value],
+                    item[fields.name] || '',
                     settings.preserveHTML
                   )
                 ;
@@ -2077,6 +2066,9 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                     value    = ( $option.attr('value') !== undefined )
                       ? $option.attr('value')
                       : name,
+                    text     = ( $option.data(metadata.text) !== undefined )
+                      ? $option.data(metadata.text)
+                      : name,
                     group = $option.parent('optgroup')
                   ;
                   if(settings.placeholder === 'auto' && value === '') {
@@ -2094,6 +2086,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                     select.values.push({
                       name     : name,
                       value    : value,
+                      text     : text,
                       disabled : disabled
                     });
                   }
@@ -2182,7 +2175,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                     return;
                   }
                   if(isMultiple) {
-                    if($.inArray( String(optionValue), value) !== -1) {
+                    if($.inArray(module.escape.htmlEntities(String(optionValue)), value) !== -1) {
                       $selectedItem = ($selectedItem)
                         ? $selectedItem.add($choice)
                         : $choice
@@ -2201,7 +2194,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                       optionValue = optionValue.toLowerCase();
                       value = value.toLowerCase();
                     }
-                    if( String(optionValue) == String(value)) {
+                    if(module.escape.htmlEntities(String(optionValue)) === module.escape.htmlEntities(String(value))) {
                       module.verbose('Found select item by value', optionValue, value);
                       $selectedItem = $choice;
                       return true;
@@ -3175,6 +3168,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
               values = module.get.values(),
               newValue
             ;
+            removedValue = module.escape.htmlEntities(removedValue);
             if( module.has.selectInput() ) {
               module.verbose('Input is <select> removing selected option', removedValue);
               newValue = module.remove.arrayValue(removedValue, values);
@@ -3764,10 +3758,9 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
           },
           htmlEntities: function(string) {
               var
-                  badChars     = /[&<>"'`]/g,
+                  badChars     = /[<>"'`]/g,
                   shouldEscape = /[&<>"'`]/,
                   escape       = {
-                      "&": "&amp;",
                       "<": "&lt;",
                       ">": "&gt;",
                       '"': "&quot;",
@@ -3779,6 +3772,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown = function(parameters) {
                   }
               ;
               if(shouldEscape.test(string)) {
+                  string = string.replace(/&(?![a-z0-9#]{1,6};)/, "&amp;");
                   return string.replace(badChars, escapedChar);
               }
               return string;
@@ -4175,7 +4169,8 @@ $.fn.dropdown.settings = {
     delete      : 'delete',
     header      : 'header',
     divider     : 'divider',
-    groupIcon   : ''
+    groupIcon   : '',
+    unfilterable : 'unfilterable'
   }
 
 };
@@ -4190,10 +4185,9 @@ $.fn.dropdown.settings.templates = {
       return string;
     }
     var
-        badChars     = /[&<>"'`]/g,
+        badChars     = /[<>"'`]/g,
         shouldEscape = /[&<>"'`]/,
         escape       = {
-          "&": "&amp;",
           "<": "&lt;",
           ">": "&gt;",
           '"': "&quot;",
@@ -4205,6 +4199,7 @@ $.fn.dropdown.settings.templates = {
         }
     ;
     if(shouldEscape.test(string)) {
+      string = string.replace(/&(?![a-z0-9#]{1,6};)/, "&amp;");
       return string.replace(badChars, escapedChar);
     }
     return string;
@@ -4260,10 +4255,10 @@ $.fn.dropdown.settings.templates = {
         if(option[fields.icon]) {
           html += '<i class="'+deQuote(option[fields.icon])+' '+(option[fields.iconClass] ? deQuote(option[fields.iconClass]) : className.icon)+'"></i>';
         }
-        html +=   escape(option[fields.name] || option[fields.value],preserveHTML);
+        html +=   escape(option[fields.name] || '', preserveHTML);
         html += '</div>';
       } else if (itemType === 'header') {
-        var groupName = escape(option[fields.name],preserveHTML),
+        var groupName = escape(option[fields.name] || '', preserveHTML),
             groupIcon = option[fields.icon] ? deQuote(option[fields.icon]) : className.groupIcon
         ;
         if(groupName !== '' || groupIcon !== '') {