dropdown question

2010-11-08 Thread fun and learning
Hello All - I have a dropwown with multiple option. When the user selects a value, goes to some other screen, and comes back he will be able to see the value selected. This is all fine. But if the user selects some last value in the dropdwon, he has to scroll down to see what has been

Re: dropdown question

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Michaels
you just need to set the selected item as selected in the dropdown select name=acme option value=abc selectedtext/option /select when the user submit the form, just store the seelected value in a session variable and use this to set the SELECTED attribute. e.g. select name=acme option

Re: dropdown question

2010-11-08 Thread fun and learning
you just need to set the selected item as selected in the dropdown select name=acme option value=abc selectedtext/option /select when the user submit the form, just store the seelected value in a session variable and use this to set the SELECTED attribute. e.g. select name=acme option

Re: dropdown question

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Michaels
I don't know off the top of my head how to scroll select lists, but I would say having a select list that big is a bad idea. It will be horrible to use, who wants to scroll through 1000 options, plus this adds unnecessary size and load time to your page. What would be better is to have just

Re: dropdown question

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Watts
I don't know off the top of my head how to scroll select lists, but I would say having a select list that big is a bad idea. It will be horrible to use, who wants to scroll through 1000 options, plus this adds unnecessary size and load time to your page. What would be better is to have just

OT: Dropdown Question

2003-03-17 Thread Ciliotta, Mario
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has an example or maybe a custom tag that I could use that would allow me to have a dropdown box on a page that if the option for the user to select is not there then the user can type something in the field. I tried to leave a blank option out there but the

Re: OT: Dropdown Question

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Brady
-- Original Message -- From: Ciliotta, Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering if anyone has an example or maybe a custom tag that I could use that would allow me to have a dropdown box on a page that if the option for the user to select is not there then