scroll box focus

[steve farris]

I have a scroll box that allows multiple selections. Something like:

<select size=4 multiple name=xyz>

Now, when i show the form i default select one of the entries. If
the selected entry is further down the list it won't be seen by
the user. Is there a way i can make the selected entry appear
in the visible portion of the select box??

[Ivo]

"steve farris" <fm*******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I have a scroll box that allows multiple selections. Something like:

<select size=4 multiple name=xyz>

Now, when i show the form i default select one of the entries. If
the selected entry is further down the list it won't be seen by
the user. Is there a way i can make the selected entry appear
in the visible portion of the select box??

Do you pre-select, serverside or clientside? If done serverside, Mozilla
displays the selected fine, just as IE(5) even clientside. I did not get
Mozilla(1.0) to scroll down however, when I had a javascript select a bottom
option. Perhaps add some text in a div next to the select detailing how many
are currently selected (which is never visible so might be appreciated
anyway)

var howmanyselected=0;
var xyz=yourreferenceto.xyz.options;
for( i=xyz.length ; i-- ; )
if( xyz[i].selected )
howmanyselected++;

var s=(howmanyselected==1) ? '' : 's' ;
referenceto.thediv.firstChild.nodeValue=
'Currently '+howmanyselected+' item'+s+' selected.' ;