opening a combo box from JS

[Laser Lips]

Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?
I don't think it is but just in case one of you knew.
I've tried combo.click(); ..focus() ..select()
Graham

[Gregor Kofler]

Laser Lips meinte:

Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

Gregor
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gregor Kofler wrote:

Laser Lips meinte:

>Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

Before dismissing the idea entirely, I think it would be worthwhile to
investigate if it was feasible to create an input event and dispatch it
to the control, so that the control might show the desired behavior.
PointedEars
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[SAM]

Gregor Kofler a écrit :

Laser Lips meinte:

>Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

select box == <input type="select"?
open == choice an item of the list (show an option) ?

if yes :

document.myForm.mySelect.selectedIndex = 2;
JS :
====

function showOption(item) {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect, o = s.options;
for(var i=0, n=o.length; i<n; i++)
if(o[i].text == item) {
s.selectedIndex = i;
break;
}
}

function launchOption(item) {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect, o = s.options;
for(var i=0, n=o.length; i<n; i++)
if(o[i].text == item) {
location = o[i].value;
break;
}
}

HTML :
======

<form name="myForm">
<select name="mySelect">
<option value="http://www.google.com/">Google</option>
<option value="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</option>
<option value="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wiki</option>
</select>
</form>
<button onclick="showOption('Yahoo!')">Show Yahoo!</button>
<button onclick="launchOption('Wiki')">Go to Wikipedia</button>

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[Gregor Kofler]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn meinte:

Gregor Kofler wrote:

>Laser Lips meinte:

>>Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

Before dismissing the idea entirely, I think it would be worthwhile to
investigate if it was feasible to create an input event and dispatch it
to the control, so that the control might show the desired behavior.

I doubt that - it would be a click event dispatched to the control, and
then I think it is completely up to the browser's behaviour whether
you'd get the according "visual feedback". Anyway, it won't be easy -
most likely - and it won't work on "most browsers". I suppose it would
be easier and more "cross browser" to fake a dropdown entirely with an
ordinary input plus other block elements (like all those suggest widgets).

Gregor

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[Gregor Kofler]

SAM meinte:

Gregor Kofler a écrit :

>Laser Lips meinte:

>>Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

select box == <input type="select"?
open == choice an item of the list (show an option) ?

[code snipped]

So what? That selects an option, but it won't "drop" the list of the
dropdown. At least that's what I think the OP want's.

Gregor
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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gregor Kofler wrote:

SAM meinte:

>Gregor Kofler a écrit :

>>Laser Lips meinte:
Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?
No.

select box == <input type="select"?
open == choice an item of the list (show an option) ?

[code snipped]

So what? That selects an option, [...]

Does it? `select' is not a (Valid) value for the `type' attribute of the
`input' element in the first place.
PointedEars
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[Gregor Kofler]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn meinte:

Gregor Kofler wrote:

>SAM meinte:

>>select box == <input type="select"?
open == choice an item of the list (show an option) ?

[code snipped]

So what? That selects an option, [...]

Does it? `select' is not a (Valid) value for the `type' attribute of the
`input' element in the first place.

I didn't understand those two lines and just skipped them. I was
referring to the snipped code below. I should have snipped everything...

Gregor
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[SAM]

Gregor Kofler a écrit :

SAM meinte:

>Gregor Kofler a écrit :

>>Laser Lips meinte:
Hi, I have a select box and I'd like to open it from JavaScript. Is
this possible?

No.

select box == <input type="select"?
open == choice an item of the list (show an option) ?

[code snipped]

it won't "drop" the list of the dropdown.

Do not understand what that means (dropping)
(translation word to word in french has no meaning)
perhaps a picture of the feature ?

or do you mean something like :
Unwind, unfold(display), show all the list ?

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[Gregor Kofler]

SAM meinte:

or do you mean something like :
Unwind, unfold(display), show all the list ?

Yes.

Gregor

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[SAM]

Gregor Kofler a écrit :

SAM meinte:

>or do you mean something like :
Unwind, unfold(display), show all the list ?

Yes.

OK.

function openDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = o.length
}
function closeDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = '';
}

:-)

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[Laser Lips]

On Aug 24, 1:08 am, SAM <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Gregor Kofler a écrit :

SAM meinte:

or do you mean something like :
Unwind, unfold(display), show all the list ?

Yes.

OK.

function openDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = o.length}

function closeDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = '';

}

:-)

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That would not work because it would push everything below it down.

Don't think it it's possible.

Graham

[SAM]

Laser Lips a écrit :

On Aug 24, 1:08 am, SAM <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>>
function openDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = o.length}

function closeDropdown() {
var s = document.myForm.mySelect;
s.size = '';

}

:-)

That would not work because it would push everything below it down.

there was a smiley !

Don't think it it's possible.

certainly something as a tiptool could simulate the feature

here is using simple css :

<style type="text/css">
form p { position: relative; height: 1em }
form p select { position: absolute; z-index: 100 }
</style>

works (if it could say) in Firefox, Safari
not tested IE

<http://cjoint.com/data/iAmOH3aFc7_open_select.htm>

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