I think this may be the kind of thing you're looking for:
http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_ui_selectmenu_an_aria_accessible_plugin_for_styling_a_html_select/

- Richard

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM, donb <falconwatc...@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> That's what I'd call it, anyway.  This would be a captioned button
> with a small arrow you'd click on.  That would drop down a list of
> button captions, changing the caption of the button when it collapses.
>
> The upshot is, the button would have variable onclick functionality,
> dependent upon the current caption of the button.  I suppose it would
> merely result in a different value of the button's 'name=' attribute
> when the container form is submitted.
>
> My goal is to pair something like that with a textbox for searching
> one of several different fields (the button caption would be 'name',
> 'phone', 'email' for example, and clicking the button would search for
> the textbox string in whichever field the button says.
>
> I'm pretty sure how I'd make one but if it's already been done, why
> reinvent.  Elsewise, I'm diving in.
>
> thanks,
>
> Don

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