Re: Add an item to an Options List.

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From	bruce <bruceaj@bellsouth.net>
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Subject	Re: Add an item to an Options List.
Date	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 17, 3:59 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 17.10.2011 22:00, bruce wrote:
> > When using a combobox, I want to add a new item to the dropdown box
> > but typing the item in the display box. I can do this with Java. Can I
> > do it with JavaScript?
>
> It depends on what you mean by "the display box" and by "typing the
> item" in it - the latter expression is now homeless, maybe you meant to
> write "by" instead of "but".
>
> It's also quite possible that you really mean something different from
> what you write. What would it help to add an item to an "Options List"
> (which probably means the collection of <option> elements inside a
> <select> element) that way? If you wish to allow free text input, why
> don't you just do that, with <input type=text>?
>
> --
> Yucca,http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

You're correct. My description was bad. I;m now trying to develop
something along the lines that you have suggested with the <input
type=text>.

Thanks...

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Add an item to an Options List. bruce <bruceaj@bellsouth.net> - 2011-10-17 12:00 -0700
  Re: Add an item to an Options List. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-10-17 22:59 +0300
    Re: Add an item to an Options List. bruce <bruceaj@bellsouth.net> - 2011-10-17 21:19 -0700
  Re: Add an item to an Options List. Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 14:03 -0700
    Re: Add an item to an Options List. bruce <bruceaj@bellsouth.net> - 2011-10-17 21:13 -0700

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