This might be part of the problem. If you include scriptaculous, it
will include all the rest of the scripty libraries. If you only want
controls, then include prototype and controls. That's the reason why
there are separate libraries -- to cut down on the overall size of
things.
Walter
Thanks for taking an interest.
When I delete the scriptaculous.js import, Autocompleter does not work
at all, so I guess it is needed.
The way I understand the libraries are organized is that you always
need scriptaculous.js, but the other libraries, e.g. effects.js,
only when needed.
On Oct 7,
No, if you include scriptaculous, you get EVERYTHING. If you just
want one extra library, then you can use it. I can't recall what
Autocompleter needs, but I think it might be Controls, maybe Effects.
If you read the source of scriptaculous.js, you'll see that it's just
a loader, and
Walter you are right. But even if I just include effects.js and
controls.js
the popup still vanishes when I click the scrollbar. I just tested
this on my Mac at home
and the popup vanishes in Safari and Opera as well when I click the
scrollbar.
Only Firefox on the Mac allows me to scroll the
I copied the example, but had to change the css by adding a height
and overflow attribute,
otherwise I don't get scrollbars.
This is the new css that I changed (last two attributes):
div.autocomplete {
position:absolute;
width:250px;
background-color:white;
border:1px solid #888;
I've never tried having a scrollbar on the results -- that's where
your problem is happening, I'm pretty sure -- clicking on the scroll
area is technically clicking outside of the results list, which
causes it to lose focus and die. My own hack around this problem is
to only return 20
Walter, thanks for your interest.
I just tested with IE 7 and it shows the same behavior. FF 3 seems to
be the odd one (the only one working).
I think I give up with scriptaculous and try something else. Do you
think JQuery might work? Or is this entirely a CSS problem?
On Oct 7, 10:04 pm,
