ok guess i was wrong ,,, http://www.interaktonline.com/demos/MXWidgets/allwidgets/mxw3_editable_dropdown.php does exactly what i was talking about... my partner in crime pointed it out...
Anyone done anything like this in CF? On 9/11/06, Richard Dillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Correct me if im wrong but I think what chad wants to do is use the > Dropdown as an Insert query,,, > I see this a lot in Filemaker apps. the field is a textbox, but if you > type into it the dropdown appears and jumps to the position your typeing > much like a regular dropdown only allowing you to type more than one > character...sorta like haveing the Dropdown in a hidden div below a > textbox...and the preselection being a Where selected is like ' > form.textbox%' > BUT if the final solution you type is not in the list it is ADDED via > Insert... > > I havent seen an animal like this ,,, but now i really wanna go code > something like it!! > > On 9/11/06, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > With Windows applications I have seen where select boxes or drop down > > > boxes you can Type information into the field or use the drop down to > > > select a record. > > > > > > Can this be done with the HTML select tag? This way the user could > > > enter information that does not already exist in the select. > > Using a mixture of CSS and Javascript you should be able to do it. > > Selene Bainum has an example of the code at her webtricks.com site: > > > > http://www.webtricks.com/sourcecode/code.cfm?CodeID=14 > > > > hth, > > > > larry > > > > -- > > Larry C. Lyons > > Web Analyst > > BEI Resources > > American Type Culture Collection > > http://www.beiresources.org > > email: llyons(at)atcc(dot)org > > tel: 703.365.2700.2678 > > -- > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252793 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
