[Sigia-l] FW: combo-box in HTML?

[Manu Sharma]

Mike Combs proposed: "Add a little button/icon/link or an item in the select 
list saying "Add
New Item" or the like.  When selected or clicked, it would toggle to the
text box."

This is a good solution. Alternatively David, in the same widget you 
mentioned, remove confusion by placing the select list first and the text 
field later with labels something like:


| select from list ^ |

or | write your own |


The advantage it has over Mike's solution is in scenarios a] where users 
abandon the form without clicking the drop down, therefore never discovering 
that an option exists for entering their own choice and b] when the drop 
down options are so many that the user may not scroll all the way down to 
the choice.

Also, you can use color coding [same background for both the fields] to help 
users distinguish between this data field and the others.

Manu.

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