I ended up combining the standard ui button with a textbox and a 'search' icon <a> all in a row, styling it so as to emulate the Firefox appearance (more or less)
http://www.gotodon.net/dropbutton/selectbutton.jpg The ui button made for a nicer appearance, as I needed to style other dropdown lists anyway On Aug 28, 11:50 pm, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote: > maybe this? > > http://www.givainc.com/labs/linkselect_jquery_plugin.htm > > - Jack > > donb 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
