[whatwg] Re: several messages

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, voracity wrote:
>
> I'd like the currently selected option to be exposed. Thus if a person
> has chosen (or typed) 'Choice 2', you could use 'combo1.selectedOption'
> to get the chosen element (i.e. <option value="Choice 2"/>). If the user
> has typed something new (or hasn't type anything at all), then
> 'combo1.selectedOption' would be null.

Agreed.


> Now, if datalists have similar properties to select's in the DOM (i.e. a
> .selectedIndex property, a .options array, etc.) then that would
> probably be good enough.

selectedIndex makes no sense since you can use a datalist from multiple
inputs. However, I agree that options would be useful.

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