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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Select box with a text input field
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:03:06 -0700
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Gene said:

>     Not that I know of.
>
>     I suggest that you just use both and tie them together
> appropriately.  If you select, then the value gets put in the textbox.
> If you change the textbox value, then the appropriate select box value
> is set or, if it is not in the list of selections, an other selection
> is set.
>


Gene:  (and Larry):

    This type of input control is know as a 'combobox".

    It can be constructed under javascript. Here's one of many links:

    http://javascript.about.com/library/blnnav7.htm

-Mel Smith