- From: voracity <subs@voracity.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:02:43 +1000
Oh, I also have a request for the DOM with respect to autocomplete fields: (the following is mostly copy/paste from my past posts) I'd like the currently selected option to be exposed. Thus if a person has chosen (or typed) 'Choice 2', you could use 'combo1.selectedOption' to get the chosen element (i.e. <option value="Choice 2"/>). If the user has typed something new (or hasn't type anything at all), then 'combo1.selectedOption' would be null. This is a) So I can determine in a script whether something new (not on the list) was entered and b) so I can add my own attributes to each <option> that I can then use to do other things with. I can do that without .selectedOption, but it would be more painful (and probably slow for big lists). And, ultimately, it would always be a hack that implements something exactly like .selectedOption. Now, if datalists have similar properties to select's in the DOM (i.e. a .selectedIndex property, a .options array, etc.) then that would probably be good enough.
Received on Thursday, 1 July 2004 06:02:43 UTC