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From: "Mike Schwartz" <mschw@athenet.net>
That urks me, too. In many web sites that have a state field, you can at least type the first letter of your state, but you still have to use the mouse, unless your state is the first one that starts with any given letter. When I type "W", "WA" pops up, so I still have to use the mouse to select "WI". If I try to type "W" then "I", the popup box jumps to "IA".
For example, jump to the state field on this website:
https://www.tigerdirect.com/secure/subscribe2.asp?cm_sp=Masthead-_-NewCustom er-_-NA
"W" takes me to "Washington", but if I then type "I" it takes me down to "International". I can avoid using my mouse if I type "W" and then down arrow twice, to get past West Virginia.
The widget is "pulldown menu with incremental search", and the question is "did they allow multiple character search input" and, as a sub query "how long after you hit a character does the hidden input field reset if you don't hit enter". Seems to me that Jeff Harrison coded a decent incremental search wrapped around a browse lookup at one point ... or maybe it was Ron Klimasewski, one of Microsys's other coders in the 90s. It's been a long time... It's odd, when I have to do maintenance work on tables all three of us had our fingers in, I can tell which of the three of us worked on a given routine; we each had a different view of 1TBS. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Make Election Day a federal holiday: http://wh.gov/lBm94 100k sigs by 12/14 Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274