text_field_with_auto_complete scrollbars

rubyonrails-talk
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Greetings,

I am using text_field_with_auto_complete to help narrow a long list of subject headings, about 10,000 in all. However, I wish to provide a scrollbar so that users can scroll through a list if there are too many results returned in the drop down. Has anyone been able to do this? I have and still am searching around but without too much success.

Regards, John

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Hi John

Have you talen a look at a Rails Plugin called RecordSelect ?

CCH

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No, I didn't.

I'll have a look now.

Thanks.

j

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The selection list lives in a DIV with a generated ID, class "auto_complete", and some inline CSS. You can inspect them with Firebug.

So, perhaps you could try adding something like

   /* untested */    #the_generated_id {      height: something;      overflow: auto;    }

to some CSS.

-- fxn

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hi xavier, i had tried what you had said,it works fine on FireFox but on IE the drop down dissapears when i try to drag it with mouse,it works fine when i do it with up and down keys..is there any fix for that

Thanks

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I guess some CSS-fu is needed there, there are guys that know their stuff in freenode#css.

-- fxn