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Re: LYNX-DEV pop up menu question
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Larry W. Virden, x2487 |
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Re: LYNX-DEV pop up menu question |
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Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:04:37 -0500 |
> I strongly suggest that you read about SELECT and OPTION in
>any of the HTML specs, then look at the markup which causes the
>behavior you describe. When you understand how something is supposed
>to work, and does work, it typically ceases to be disconcerting.
That's true. However, in the case of lynx behavior, the above paragraph,
and the one before, have no bearing on my posting. Thanks though for
the catty remarks. I am sure the intention was to raise my blood pressure
through making me angry, thus potentially flushing some cholesterol from
my blood stream. Hope that's the end effect and not just an increase in
gastric acids resulting in more ulcers. I certainly can point to this
type of reply ranking up there with my stubborn kids as contributing
to the medical conditions.
Anyways back to on topic subjects. I have a sample piece of html that
shows the peculiar behavior. Perhaps, as you say, this is exactly the
peculiar behavior we want. Shrug. I never claimed it was a bug, just
something disconcerting. I get a 6 entry popup shown. The News entry
is selected (in inverse). However, the text cursor is positioned at the
second entry. If I press return again, the selected item is what is
set in the results, rather than the entry by which the text cursor is
sitting. If I move the selection using the cursor keys, the text cursor
appears immediately _after_ the selection at this point. It's only in the
original display of the selection that I see the cursor in a different
place.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>
test popup
</title>
<link rev=made href="mailto:address@hidden";>
</head>
<body>
<form method=get action="http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query";>
<input type=hidden name=pg value=q>
Input value:
<select name=what>
<option value="">
<option value=database>Database
<option value=mailing>Mailing List
<option value=news selected>News
<option value=web>Web
<option value=yellowpages>Yellow Pages
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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