63928 - Allow Find to work in listboxes/option lists (SELECT form controls)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement, P4)

Description

[timeless]

Some listboxes have thousands of options. Users should be able to search them 
w/o using view-source.  If only one result matches, it should be scrolled into 
view.  If multiple results match, the first one should be scrolled into view, 
the others should if possible receive a -moz-highlight indicating that they are 
search matches, and it'd be neat if users could easily navigate from one hit to 
another.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

How about including listboxes when searching the page?

Comment 2

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

For SELECT MULTIPLE, we can focus-but-not-select the found item. But I don't 
think there's any sensible way this can work for SELECT non-MULTIPLE. Any ideas?

Comment 5

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

One could potentially drop down the single select and select the option in the
dropdown--it wouldn't be actually selected but the user could hit enter to
select it.

Comment 6

[Jonas Jørgensen]

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Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 8

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

We allow finding in listboxes now. Comboboxes would be a tougher one, not sure how that'd look.