<select>

[Steve Wright]

I have a select box with a lot of entries in it, some of which start with
the same letter.

I want the user to be able to type the first few letters into the select box
and have the list "move" to the appropriate place.

any one know how to achieve this?

TIA
Steve

[Lachlan Hunt]

Steve Wright wrote:

I have a select box with a lot of entries in it, some of which start with
the same letter.

I want the user to be able to type the first few letters into the select box
and have the list "move" to the appropriate place.

any one know how to achieve this?

That kind of functionality is dependant on the UAs implementation.
Currently, users can type the first letter only, which you may have to
live with. You may be able to try some javascript, which you should ask
about in a javascript newsgroup; but be warned that, unless written
extremely well, this may cause unexpected behaviour for user's, thus
making the form more difficult to use, rather than easier. My
experience with javascript on other websites (never my own) that attempt
to assist the user with forms, have been written extremely poorly, and
bugs have made them very difficult to use.

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[David Dorward]

Steve Wright wrote:

I have a select box with a lot of entries in it, some of which start with
the same letter.

I want the user to be able to type the first few letters into the select
box and have the list "move" to the appropriate place.

any one know how to achieve this?

Install Mozilla, it does this by default.

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