Closed Bug 167949 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

String selection in select boxes

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

x86
Windows 2000
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150590

People

(Reporter: rst, Assigned: john)

Details

Hi, when a select box is selected and there are say 200 options available it is rather comfortable to use the keyboard to select the first option beginning with 'any char'. Indeed, in some situations this is not sufficient for me. I would like to be able to also type a second char and a third one to come closer to the final option I want to choose (if you find 150 options commencing with an 'e' you are very happy if you can jump to 'enhancement' by just typing 'enh' (now it selects the first option beginning with 'e' than the first one beginning with 'n' then the first one beginning with 'h'). Indeed, this behaviour would interfere with Mozilla's behaviour that the second option beginning with 'any char' is selected when re-typing the char. René
reassigning
Assignee: morse → jkeiser
Component: Form Manager → HTML Form Controls
Dup of "should be able to type words into <select> - incremental search for item" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150590 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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