in a forum reply-to textarea or something, then yah, i'd agree that having no up/down arrowns would be a pain, but for a list of authorised readers' usernames it's less of an issue.
the contents of the field don't equate to a paragraph of text, but a number of separate entries, and the whole autocomplete thing means you're less likely to make a spelling mistake that you only notice later... On Jun 4, 6:19 am, "Mountain/\\Ash" <mountain...@gmail.com> wrote: > The autocomplete plugins disables the use of the up and down arrow > keys. In a single line input area this is not an issue, but on a > textarea it is very noticeable (especially if you are a poor-spller > like I am). I think the arrow keys should only be overridden when the > autocomplete "drop-down" is visible. > > As an example fill the "Multiple Birds (remote)" example > athttp://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/with "Birds can be > fuund all over the wurld, some such birds are:" now try and use the > arrow keys to go back and fix the errors.
