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From: JM (jm_newsgroups_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: 2 Dec 2004 12:20:19 -0800

Hi,

When you use the keyboard inside a dropdown rendered by a <SELECT>
element, you can quickly locate <OPTION> elements with values
beginning with the key you typed. Firefox allows you to quickly type
any amount of keys to further refine your search. If you quickly
typed "dog", for example, your focus would be set to "dogwood" instead
of just the first element that begins with "d". If you try this using
IE, you will bounce from elements starting with "d" to those starting
with "o" to those starting with "g". Is there a way to configure IE
to do this? I assume it's a user agent function and not something
configurable with Javascript.

Grr... it took me 5 minutes to find the genuine IE group. Microsoft
has several that have become bogus from non-use. They should scrap
those.

Thanks,

JM

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