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Apr 24.2006

I have combo/dropdown box in my form and there are many (100) items in the list. The list is in alphabetical order. I am able to find using only first letter. But I want to find the element based on keypress events of characters. Suppose if I have “Island, India, indiana, Iraq, Iran” in the drop down list and i need to find “India” by pressing “In” on the combo box and I need to go to “Indiana” after pressing keys till “indian”. Is it possible to do in Javascript? can some one pls let me know.

Thanks in advance.
Kirru

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@scoperApr 24.2006 — This is possible.. you can handle the keypress event and get the keycode that was pressed... from there you can build a string of typed characters... maybe clear the string when the control losed focus?
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@hyperliskApr 24.2006 — See [url=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100490]this thread[/url].
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@scoperApr 25.2006 — you might still consider clearing the string onblur because if the control regains focus without a space being typed, then the search will continue from whatever was typed before... if you get my drift
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@kirru66authorApr 25.2006 — Thanx guys it is working!
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