- From: Gregory Martin Pfeil <pfeilgm@technomadic.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:40:38 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Joshua Weage <gte855f@prism.gatech.edu>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
> 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.
> After reading the HTML 4 spec, I don't think
> this is currently possible.
Nor should it be possible. This sounds eerily like the "combo box", a
widget with a lot of fundamental flaws. If you want to include this
type of functionality, have an option on the select named "other" and
a separate text box to hold the user's entry. It's easy enough to
have a CGI parse that.
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Greg Pfeil --- Software Engineer --- (pfeilgm@|http://)technomadic.org
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Received on Thursday, 22 October 1998 07:21:01 UTC