Okay, somewhere in my head I can remember seeing an example of this, but I can't recall where it was. Sounds like the solution (if one exists) is non-trivial. Appreciate the ideas and if I do come across or develop some sort of solution I will post back to this thread.
On 10/19/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking you could build an actual "custom control" to do this, and > that's a good start... add a down arrow to the right of it to show the > dropdown portion and lock the textbox from editing and you'd have a good > start. > > Thanks Joe! > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > AIM: fzammetti > Yahoo: fzammetti > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, October 19, 2005 3:51 pm, Joe Germuska said: > > At 3:11 PM -0400 10/19/05, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > >>This isn's something that is possible in straight HTML. There could be a > >>way to do it via CSS, but nothing obvious presents itself to me... I > >> tried > >>setting a background-image, but that didn't work. > >> > >>Can you find an example of it being done? Unless there's some > >> non-obvious > >>CSS trick, or perhaps some non-standard browser extension, I'd bet this > >>isn't possible. > > > > Here's an example of something a user might not distinguish from what > > is described, although it wouldn't be using <select> > > > > http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter_customized > > > > By using DHTML like this and having an event cause a hidden form > > field value to be set, you could achieve the goal. > > > > Note that Scriptaculous builds upon the Prototype library, which > > breaks commons-validator client side javascript validation. > > > > Joe > > > > -- > > Joe Germuska > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://blog.germuska.com > > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.quidprocode.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
