Comments on: New HTML Form element: Radio Select – Combining Radio Button and Select items

By: rahul

rahul — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:20:35 +0000

fine code

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:20:15 +0000

This kind of functionality has been built-in to the qForms JSAPI library for a long time. While the example below doesn’t show a select box as the “other” choice, it’s actually pretty trivial to change (just change the field from a text field to a select box.)

http://www.pengoworks.com/qforms/docs/examples/advanced.htm

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:34:56 +0000

Nice one. Will speed up batch form processing apps. (Although power users might prefer only a selector due to keyboard shortcuts.)

One suggestion: Why not let the user click on the selector directly, instead of going through the radiobutton?

By: Lucas Jellema

Lucas Jellema — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:46:41 +0000

The article you refer to describes a Swing based implementation of an element that supports multi-select through checkboxes. While in the same category perhaps, it is quite something else than the HTML based single select item that I describe in this article.

By: harm

harm — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:07:41 +0000

This looks better (ie uses less space) than the radio-select described in this article: http://www.orablogs.com/duffblog/archives/001203.html. Though the idea is not new.