I would like the user to be able to click on the drop down list, and start typing to find a word. Right now you can do this, but you have to do it fast, and it doesn't work in >ie7. Right now I have users and they are trying to do this, by typing in j-a-v-a the ddl will jump from j-javascript to a-apple to v-vase to a-apple instead of staying on the word javascript. any suggestions would help. this is just done in html at the moment, but I figured if there was a solution it would have to be done in javascript. <select name="letters"> <option>a</option> <option>ab</option> <option>ac</option> <option>ba</option> <option>bb</option> <option>bc</option> <option>ca</option> <option>cb</option> <option>cc</option> </select>
A-J-A-X! Don't let it scare you, if you are familiar with the httprequest object and any server script, the only real difference is that xmlhttprequest object is asynchronous.
No AJAX is required here. You can do that with simple javascript. Insert all the available options into an array and when the user types in his search, check the array for matches and display only the options that match the search.