User input drop down menu 1

[yesti]

Is it possible to have a drop down menu that the user can also type into? Thanks.

 

[theocraticmind]

it could be that i'm to tired to get it working...but why dose innerHTML not work for option tags?

 

[Wullie]

Hi all,

The select tag is system generated unlike any other form element and therefor you are very restricted with the customisation..

There are a few ways to get round this and they are mentioned in this forum if you want to do a search.

I also think that

http://www.javascriptsource.com

has a script that if you choose other, then an alert box prompts you to enter the info..

Hope this helps Wullie

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[theocraticmind]

the

http://www.javascriptsource.com

script wullie was takling about is this:

http://javascript.internet.com/messages/editable-menu.html

 

[bluranj]

This is the one you want

http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/combobox/combobox.htm

A combo box Ranjan

http://www.dreamlettes.com

fragments of dream, weave them together

 

[Wullie]

Hi all,

Just remember than most of these types of scripts do not work in NS..

Hope this helps Wullie

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[yesti]

Thanks! I'll take a look. Much appreciated.

 

[yesti]

I looked at the script bluranj suggested and now my problem is this:

I pull records from a database to populate the combo box. I add them using the add() function:

dm.add("text",int);

The problem is if the text has an apostrophe in it I get a runtime error:

Line: 0 Error: Expected ')'.

I encode apostrophes in my database to ' so they do not cause problems with the SQL string going into the database but I guess they are causing trouble here. Any ideas?