limitations of dropdown select boxes
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:07 am
hope this is the appropriate forum...
here goes..
i'm working on a form that currently has a select box populated from a database for choosing one of the fields..
question is.. it looks like there are gonna be a large number of options in the select box.. possible a few hundred.. is there a better way to do this? i'm not sure that many of the users of the systems know that they can move through the select box using the letters on their keyboard..
is there any better way to do this that i am overlooking? maybe some sort of auto complete javascript with a text box that will inform them if they've entered in an invalid choice?
any ideas? i'm kinda stuck.
i've got a few instances like this that i would like to rememdy..
thanks for any help!
Will
here goes..
i'm working on a form that currently has a select box populated from a database for choosing one of the fields..
question is.. it looks like there are gonna be a large number of options in the select box.. possible a few hundred.. is there a better way to do this? i'm not sure that many of the users of the systems know that they can move through the select box using the letters on their keyboard..
is there any better way to do this that i am overlooking? maybe some sort of auto complete javascript with a text box that will inform them if they've entered in an invalid choice?
any ideas? i'm kinda stuck.
i've got a few instances like this that i would like to rememdy..
thanks for any help!
Will