I was thinking you could build an actual "custom control" to do this, and that's a good start... add a down arrow to the right of it to show the dropdown portion and lock the textbox from editing and you'd have a good start.
Thanks Joe! -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, October 19, 2005 3:51 pm, Joe Germuska said: > At 3:11 PM -0400 10/19/05, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >>This isn's something that is possible in straight HTML. There could be a >>way to do it via CSS, but nothing obvious presents itself to me... I >> tried >>setting a background-image, but that didn't work. >> >>Can you find an example of it being done? Unless there's some >> non-obvious >>CSS trick, or perhaps some non-standard browser extension, I'd bet this >>isn't possible. > > Here's an example of something a user might not distinguish from what > is described, although it wouldn't be using <select> > > http://script.aculo.us/demos/ajax/autocompleter_customized > > By using DHTML like this and having an event cause a hidden form > field value to be set, you could achieve the goal. > > Note that Scriptaculous builds upon the Prototype library, which > breaks commons-validator client side javascript validation. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
