Massimo, Thanks, this basically does what I asked. Is the best way to get more advanced selection dropdowns to build a widget? What I'm really after is a dropdown more like the one linked here.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/autocomplete/ac_combobox.html Thanks again for you quick response. Best, Sam On Nov 14, 1:13 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > as a test... leave min_lenght=0 and in gluon.sqlhtml.py after > > attr['_onkeyup'] = "...." > > add > > attr['_onfocues'] = attr['_onkeyup'] > > (occurs in two places) > > Does it do what you ask? > > On Nov 14, 1:56 pm, oneroler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is it possible to use the autocomplete widget on a select box where > > when someone clicks into the text field the dropdown with all the > > selections are available and then the user has the option to type and > > have the possible selections reduced? I have tried using the > > SQLFORM.widgets.autocomplete with min_length=0 and this kind of does > > what I want except that you have to start typing something to get the > > dropdown. I also tried the jquery autocomplete widget on > > web2pyslices, but couldn't get the result I wanted. I thought I had > > seen an answer to this in this group a while ago, but I haven't been > > able to find it so apologies if this has already been answered. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > Sam
