Comment 19 for bug 1511742
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| Kyle Huckins (khuckins) wrote Re: webclient: Need ability to type to selection in in some menus | #19 |
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Hey Kathy,
The menus actually are free-text entry boxes, making use of typeahead to simulate a dropdown. This was done in order to preserve the spacing and the look & feel of the already existing dropdowns. It may take some reworking to bring in the dropdown arrow. I've made some attempts to get the arrow to display, but none of them have worked out all that well so far. Very much agreed that it's a nice thing to have.
One thought that I have(which would still be more than a minor change) is to have a separate button that visually seems attached to the text field(similar to the old workstation registration field. It would display as a dropdown arrow, and trigger the full dropdown when pressed. I'm not sure how this idea would work with certain accessibility tools that may be used, like screen readers, however.