Can I tell which OPTION in a SELECT control I hover above?

[inbaron]

I have this problem. I have a SELECT control with very long items in the options list. I do not want to have a very wide control and I would like to truncate the items so they can show in a narrower box. However, I still would like to enable the user to see the complete item. I would like to have the ability that when the user hovers (or right clicks) an entry in the list to know which item he is looking at so I can display the complete item (either in a <div> or an alert box).

How can I tell which item in the Select List the user is hovering above or right clicking? Is there a way to do it? The OPTION element does have any event handlers that I know about.

Thanks in advance

Shai

 

[dwarfthrower]

No facility exists to do this. You could either widen the select control or build your own widget in DHTML.

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