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