dk01 — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:16:59 +0000

bja888 wrote: Thank you for a shove in the wrong direction dk01.

Filling it with content will be the easy part. Getting the html to work is the hard part.

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bja888 — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:29:53 +0000

Thank you for a shove in the wrong direction dk01.

Filling it with content will be the easy part. Getting the html to work is the hard part.

dk01 — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:42:14 +0000

This can be done with AJAX. Its a combination of dhtml and serverside components. It works in FF and IE 5.5+ at least. Basically you create a connection to the server when the page is loaded. This connection can be worked over without having to reload the page. So it works kind of like Gmail does. This is just one AJAX example:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/examples/ajaxformsubmission.html
and the tutorial for that form:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/javascript/ajax.html

And this one example here is very complex. Try typing in a first name like bob or jim. It will update without reloading the page:

http://www.farleyfamily.net/school/project/client/

You can learn more on AJAX on the wikipedia page. Anyhow this is all quite complex and may not be worth doing unless you know your stuff and are fluent in php, mysql, and javascript. Anyhow its possible though!

Jim

bja888 — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:22:43 +0000

Sorry, I have kinda been on an unexpected hiatus.

If you want a button to expand/hide results thaen it needs done in flash but if you just want a text area with options then it can be done in JavaScript.

lex — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:03:45 +0000

I seen it done in flash

triapply — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:11:00 +0000

Thanks to the helpful folks that responded! In particular,
JeevesBond - Thanks for the confirmation. I know now I was just imagining things =).
bja888 - Great to hear! Please update me and everyone else on your progress! Although I dont' think I can implement anything non-trivial in Flash =)

I've started to implement a workaround (google suggest style) to see if I can use a regular text input field with the suggest-like feature attached to the bottom as the user starts to type in the text field.

Thanks again!

bja888 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:12:33 +0000

I started working on it... (the javascript)
I can make it so it is cross browser but you there is no way is JavaScript or CSS is turned off.

On the other hand... The best way to do it would be Javascript/Flash combo

JeevesBond — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:50:38 +0000

Quote: Thanks so very much and have a wonderful Christmas everyone (it's only 10 days away)!!

And Happy Christmas to you too!

JeevesBond — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:49:42 +0000

Quote: I'd like to ask if anyone can come up with a creative way to accomplish the following:
- have an input text box AND
- have a dropdown list
... into ONE

Am afraid the answer is a firm no to this one, not unless you can find some amazing JavaScript trickery (very inadviseable and really really really not worth the effort due to the accessibility issues it'll cause).

This functionality isn't built into forms at the moment. Sorry.

Busy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:51:40 +0000

Hi, what you see in start/run is an overflow of the input field (previous chosen items, like in your tool bar address bar)

The input box uses the input tag
The drop down uses the select tag