Comments on: Simple Combo Box jQuery plugin

By: tomao44

tomao44 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:29:53 +0000

@marco : my way to make it more obvious that the user can type freeform into the box.
I add special class “vide” to empty option and this css :
select.simpleCombo option.vide:after {
content:”Saisir une valeur…”;
color: #aaa;
font-style: italic;
}

By: Bennett

Bennett — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:05:09 +0000

@Karl, I’m not sure how to support clipboard operations. I will investigate and see if it can be done.

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:05:31 +0000

Pretty cool approach, but it doesn’t seem to support Ctrl+V to paste text.

By: rafael

rafael — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:22:33 +0000

A page with the properties, events, themes … would be nice

By: Bennett

Bennett — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:25:46 +0000

@Andrey: The Simple Combo plugin uses a native select box, so it will be affected by the IE6 z-index bug. This bug can be fixed with the bgiframe plugin. Of course you can use other solutions such as Dijit, but as I mentioned above, "Dojo’s Dijit suite of widgets look nice, but they look quite different to native widgets. If you have one Dijit combo box on your page then everything else has to be a Dijit widget; otherwise your page will look like a room full of mismatched furniture."

By: Andrey

Andrey — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:33:13 +0000

What about ie6 z-index bug when Select control is always on top?
Dijit comboBox for example has no such problem since it does not use native select control.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:42:00 +0000

@Jonathan, I’m not sure if your example is exactly right, but your point is valid. If your select has a class of “simpleCombo” then simpleCombo will think it’s already enabled, so it won’t work. If I update the plugin I will change that class name to something less likely to be accidentally used.

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:32:51 +0000

thanks this is nice. One issue that might be worth calling out is that the simpleCombo() method breaks if the class you assign your selects is named ’simpleCombo’.

i.e.
html:

js: $(’select.simpleComboClass’).simpleCombo();

this had me pulling my hair out for a few. fiw, I’m a total JQ noob.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:13:02 +0000

@marco, I don’t know a good way to change th plugin to show this. Perhaps the best way is to add text like “select or type” next to the combo box.

By: marco

marco — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:48:03 +0000

Hi,

The only problem I have is that it’s not obvious that the text is editable, because the cursor doesn’t show up in the box. I don’t think my users will notice. Is there a way to make it more obvious that the user can type freeform into the box?

Thanks,
Marco