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asp_databases thread: Dropdown Listbox
Message #1 by Michael Flanagan <Michael.Flanagan@a...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:30:50 +0100
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I was just wondering if anyone could tell me about a
nice dropdown listbox which allows you to type in a few
letters to go to the entry you want.
for example ,if you had a dropdown box containing peoples
names you could type in (searching for my name)
M and it would go to all names starting with M.
then if you type in I, you would go to all names
starting with MI ,etc. As it is if I do this it goes
to the names starting with M then hops to the
names starting with I.
Thanking you in advanc
Thanks,
Mike
Michael.Flanagan@A...
Message #2 by "Daniel Walker" <danielw@w...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:35:31
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Again, this isn't an ASP question, really. You'd need to write a
client-side script to do this kind of dynamic switching thing. In any case,
you'd be better off using a combined textbox/listbox setup (like in a
standard Windows Help index, for instance). Dropdowns only really work for
option-lists of upto ten options, or so, really. More than that, they
defeat themselves.
Julian Skinner and myself have just looked in our old "Instant Netscape
DHTML" book, and it does appear that even the fossil versions of Netscape
support both onchange and focus, so an accross-platform way of doing the
combined textbox/listbox thing using javascript should be do-able.
Something like:
<input type="Text" name="choose"
onchange="fiendishlycleverandimporbablynamedfunction(this)">
With the function then doing a comparrison with what's in the box and
setting the focus in the list to whatever's the nearest match.
If I find some time, I'll try and cobble something together, but if anyone
else wants to respond to this, I'll transfer the thread onto our new
Javascript list.
On 06/14/00, Michael Flanagan wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me about a
> nice dropdown listbox which allows you to type in a few
> letters to go to the entry you want.
>
> for example ,if you had a dropdown box containing peoples
> names you could type in (searching for my name)
> M and it would go to all names starting with M.
> then if you type in I, you would go to all names
> starting with MI ,etc. As it is if I do this it goes
> to the names starting with M then hops to the
> names starting with I.
>
> Thanking you in advanc
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Michael.Flanagan@A...
Message #3 by "Ken Schaefer" <ken.s@a...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:57:49
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And this has what to do with ASP and databases?
Cheers
Ken
On 06/14/00, Michael Flanagan wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me about a
> nice dropdown listbox which allows you to type in a few
> letters to go to the entry you want.
>
> for example ,if you had a dropdown box containing peoples
> names you could type in (searching for my name)
> M and it would go to all names starting with M.
> then if you type in I, you would go to all names
> starting with MI ,etc. As it is if I do this it goes
> to the names starting with M then hops to the
> names starting with I.
>
> Thanking you in advanc
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
Message #4 by "Blackwelder, Dedra J." <djblackwelder@p...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:40:01 -0500
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are we in a bad mood today? There are list boxes in the book, but
they don't do more than the first letter. 'guess it can't be done.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:58 AM
To: ASP Databases
Subject: [asp_databases] Re: Dropdown Listbox
And this has what to do with ASP and databases?
Cheers
Ken
On 06/14/00, Michael Flanagan wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me about a
> nice dropdown listbox which allows you to type in a few
> letters to go to the entry you want.
>
> for example ,if you had a dropdown box containing peoples
> names you could type in (searching for my name)
> M and it would go to all names starting with M.
> then if you type in I, you would go to all names
> starting with MI ,etc. As it is if I do this it goes
> to the names starting with M then hops to the
> names starting with I.
>
> Thanking you in advanc
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
Message #5 by "Daniel Walker" <danielw@w...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:1:45
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I'm sure it can be done, but it'll need client-side JavaScript to do it,
and isn't a question that directly pertains to databases, as Ken says.
On 06/14/00, "Blackwelder, Dedra J." wrote:
> are we in a bad mood today? There are list boxes in the book, but
they don't do more than the first letter. 'guess it can't be done.
Message #6 by "Cory Koski" <ckoski@w...> on Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:20:56 -0400
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I think Ken's trying to say...
Keep it on the topic of "ASP and databases". I doublt it has anything to do
with his mood, and more to do with the fact that he probably reads EVERY
message that comes through here to help us out. Off-topic messages are just
not normally cool, a waste bandwidth, and they normally won't get answered,
as they are, by nature, off-topic .
If you need general ASP help, use IRC's #asp or join a generalized ASP
mailing list.
A good, but high traffic ASP mailing list can be found on www.15seconds.com
at
http://list.15seconds.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=activeserverpages&text_mode
=0
Cory
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Walker"
To: "ASP Databases" <asp_databases@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: [asp_databases] Re: Dropdown Listbox
> I'm sure it can be done, but it'll need client-side JavaScript to do it,
> and isn't a question that directly pertains to databases, as Ken says.
>
> On 06/14/00, "Blackwelder, Dedra J." wrote:
> > are we in a bad mood today? There are list boxes in the book, but
> they don't do more than the first letter. 'guess it can't be done.
>
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