- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:59:04 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 12:35p -0700 10/20/98, Joshua Weage wrote: > It seems that there is an obvious missing functionality >with the select tag, the ability for the user to type in >their own entry. So instead of a pure select, you have >a combination of select and input, where the user can >choose a value, or type in their own. That's the key -- you're describing a *combination* of items. I think what you really want is a variant of select, where it displays as a titleless arrow-button and executes commands rather than changing state (in this case, the command would be to put the chosen option value into the preceding/associated textbox). > After reading the HTML 4 spec, I don't think >this is currently possible. Yeah, I think you'd have to use Java to get such a control. -Walter
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