Incremental Search Select Boxes

[Dan777]

Does anyone know how to implement more than single-character searching on a Select Box (drop-down box). For example, suppose I have a select box containing all 50 U.S. states, and the user presses 'M'. Focus in the box is then put on Maine. But if the user presses 'MI', focus in the box goes to Idaho instead of Michigan, because the searching is limited to only one character.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Dan

 

[mackey333]

well you could try intersepting the command with something like this:

function getKey(keyStroke) {

   isNetscape=(document.layers);
	
   eventChooser = (isNetscape) ? keyStroke.which : event.keyCode;
	
   whichKey = String.fromCharCode(eventChooser).toLowerCase();

   list(whichKey);
}
document.onkeydown = getKey;

then you could use a function called list to check the key set it to a variable, search the selection items, and scroll the selection box -Greg :-Q