Selecting from Dropdown with Keyboard

[Gary]

I would like for my DropDownList to be completely selectable from the
keyboard i.e. as the user types letters it hones down on the selection as it
can in windows. I know that if I put focus on the DDL then one letter can
be typed and it will select the first entry with that letter. but then it
loses focus and successive letters cannot by typed. Can what I want to do
be done?
thanks,
G

 

[bruce barker]

not with the dropdown list, the browser does not expose enough methods or
properties to do it.

you could write your own drop down in javascript using a textbox, image and
flyout menu, that did support this feature. it would be a fun project.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)