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#7517 closed enhancement (notabug)

Opened June 28, 2011 07:29PM UTC

Closed June 28, 2011 08:09PM UTC

Editable Select List

Reported by: ylluminate Owned by: ylluminate
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.9.0
Component: ui.core Version: 1.8.14
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

While happy to see the core integration of autocomplete, I believe that an equally important option is to facilitate an editable select list. An editable select list facilitates some key database functionality for fields that change and/or are used frequently, but don't merit an entire table to themselves. The idea is to take a column of attributes from a table and populate the select with this data whilst simultaneously allowing the user to type a new entry, auto completing the text while typing if matching chars are found from a string in the list.

This functionality was provided to Dreamweaver developers years ago (around 2001) and was a very useful feature for demanding forms and data entry applications.

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Changed June 28, 2011 07:34PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:1

owner: → ylluminate
status: newpending

I'm not really sure whether you're asking for a feature or a widget. If it's a feature, please provide a more descriptive explanation (a live example would go a long way too). If it's a new plugin, this is not the place for such a request; you can start a discussion the the forums or planning wiki.

Changed June 28, 2011 08:06PM UTC by ylluminate comment:2

status: pendingnew

Changed June 28, 2011 08:09PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:3

resolution: → invalid
status: newclosed

This is already in development, see http://wiki.jqueryui.com/w/page/12138056/Selectmenu