tab to select list and have list open

mwienick

How do i get a drop down list to open upon a user tabbing to it?
thanks,
mike

Frederick

Setup a trigger event. Trigger can be another drop menu or any data. The variable that is used in this example is (showlist). Yours can be anything such as category_id, etc.

<a href="page.php?showlist=1">Click Here</a>

<?php
if (isset($_GET["showlist"])) {
    // display drop menu here
}
?>

Shrike

Originally posted by Frederick
Setup a trigger event. Trigger can be another drop menu or any data. The variable that is used in this example is (showlist). Yours can be anything such as category_id, etc.
<a href="page.php?showlist=1">Click Here</a>

<?php
if (isset($_GET["showlist"])) {
    // display drop menu here
}
?>
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Not quite sure what the above code is supposed to do, but I guess the issue is getting the drop down menu to open on the client side, in which case Javascript is the answer. How it's done I don't know.

Frederick

This method is an alternative to those who do not know javascript and are either learning PHP or do not want java.

rehfeld

Originally posted by Frederick
This method is an alternative to those who do not know javascript and are either learning PHP or do not want java.

it still wont do anything when you tab to it unless you use javascript.

Shrike

Originally posted by Frederick
This method is an alternative to those who do not know javascript and are either learning PHP or do not want java.

I'm not convinced that Java could manage it either.

Roger_Ramjet

Nothing can make the drop-down open when the element gets the focus, except the user. However, you could use javascript and the onFocus event to change the size of the select element so that it displays more then one option.

onFocus

change size

An html select object is NOT the same thing as a VB combo-box, you can not force it to display the list. IE will let you assign a keyboard key that the user can use to display the list, but only possible in IE so why bother.