- From: Cultimo <jeroen-g@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 98 15:04:19 +0200
- To: <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. Why should this not be possible? I sounds like great advantage. Jeroen Goulooze
Received on Thursday, 22 October 1998 09:01:09 UTC