[whatwg] Simple solution for select editable
Matthew Raymond
mattraymond at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 29 06:37:41 PDT 2004
I've come up with a simple solution that allows <select editable> to
degrade gracefully in Web Forms 2.0. Just put the extra text box in a
repetition template that has zero instances:
<select editable="editable" name="thing">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
</select>
<span repeat="template" repeat-start="0">
or you can type a new entry: <input type="text" name="thing_new">
</span>
In non-WF2 user agents, "editable" is ignored and the <span> is
rendered, allowing the user to put a custom entry in the text box. In a
WF2 UA, only the <select> is shown, but it's rendered as a combo box.
(Finally something good comes out of this stupid template defect!)
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