Closed
Bug 79035
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
Autocomplete for drop-down boxes
Categories
(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)
Core
Layout: Form Controls
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1309935
Future
People
(Reporter: matthew, Unassigned)
Details
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010504 BuildID: 2001050420 We need to add autocompletion for drop-down list boxes. Right now, all we have is the ability to type the first character and cycle through the matching ones. What should appear is an autocomplete box like the URL bar that minimizes choices as one types. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Click a drop down box with countries listed, type "C" and try to find Canada. Actual Results: Repeatedly hitting "C" goes through all the C countries Expected Results: It should pop up a box containing entries like: Cambodia Canada Columbia etc... Hitting the next key should narrow the box down again. This is a feature not available in any browser I've seen so far - it would definately be a good way to set Mozilla apart.
Comment 2•23 years ago
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Marking NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Hardware: PC → All
Comment 3•23 years ago
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Yes, I like this idea, but it requires a timer, more work.....
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 4•23 years ago
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See also bug 92491, the same bug for XBL form controls. Bug 92491 has some discussion about how this feature should work. By the way, this bug will become a dup of 92491 if bug 57209 (use XBL form controls for HTML forms) is fixed. There seems to be a precendent of WONTFIXing bugs that will be made moot by that change, but I'm not comfortable with that because those wontfixes aren't being tracked in case someone later decides not to XBLify form controls.
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Comment 5•23 years ago
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Please note- this is not the same bug. This bug involved autocompleting for the drop down boxes, not just jumping to an item based on the first letter.
Comment 6•22 years ago
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You mean something like this? http://www.visi.com/~hoju/mozilla/selectobjectdemo/selectobjdemo.html well, maybe not exactly, but it provides some pretty good combo-box like functionality using the w3c DOM and w3c Event models combined with some oop javascript. BTW, this works in both Mozilla and IE5.5+ (haven't tested anything below that) and it can also fall back to using the standard DOM Level0 non w3c DOM and w3c Event model browsers like Netscape4 and Opera. Jake
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Comment 7•22 years ago
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That's exactly what I was thinking!
Comment 8•22 years ago
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This is sort of related to bug 163532 (one might say a dup but I think one would be wrong).
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Comment 9•22 years ago
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I think this would be a little more advanced than that bug. This would actually filter the displayed list as you type, showing available choices that match what has been typed.
Comment 10•22 years ago
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this is almost a dup of bug 150590
Summary: [RFE] Autocomplete for drop-down boxes → Autocomplete for drop-down boxes
Comment 11•16 years ago
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how to sort autocomplete
Comment 12•16 years ago
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Ignore that last comment I posted.
Updated•15 years ago
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Assignee: rods → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: vladimire → layout.form-controls
Comment 13•7 years ago
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Bug 1309935 implemented this though it doesn't focus the search box by default.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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