auto-fill in dropdown box

[Kevin M.]

Hello, I was reffered to this site and told this groupd could answer anything.
What I am looking for is a dropdown box which when you type "Mi" you go to
the Mi's and not just the I's. This is for a dropdown containing 6000+ items,
so performance is an issue, which makes me thing "OnKeyUp" or down checking
should be used as a last resort. Another thing is when a letter is pressed,
some of the dropdown items do not "hide" or "disappear". I need the whole
list there at all times. Can anyone help??????

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kris Eiben]

6000+ items? Way too many to handle, even if you do get the
multiple-letter search working -- which won't help users who have
Javascript disabled.

1) What kind of data is this? (Might help us figure out ways to deal
with it.)
2) Would it be possible to split it up into multiple listboxes, scripted
so that if one is selected, all others go back to the default blank one?
3) Could you make the whole list available just in plain text in a popup
window? Then, you could have a textbox for users to type in the first
few letters, capture an <enter> or have a "Go" button, and refresh a
separate window that holds just that listbox, with just the items that
match that criteria. (warning: heavily Javascript-dependent)

Kris

"Kevin M." <kjmst29@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, I was reffered to this site and told this groupd could answer
anything.
> What I am looking for is a dropdown box which when you type "Mi" you
go to
> the Mi's and not just the I's. This is for a dropdown containing 6000+
items,
> so performance is an issue, which makes me thing "OnKeyUp" or down
checking
> should be used as a last resort. Another thing is when a letter is
pressed,
> some of the dropdown items do not "hide" or "disappear". I need the
whole
> list there at all times. Can anyone help??????