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Re: Listboxes that update content

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 1, 2019 8:25AM

I do this all the time (alt+down), but strangely enough I think the
behavior changed in firefox recently. Now I have to press space on the
<select> to get the dropdown list to appear. Alt+down still works in
chrome and ie.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:19 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> The list of options in native comboboxes can be opened by pressing
> Alt+DownArrow. You can then use the arrow keys to scroll through the
> options without selecting them. This has been standard behaviour for at
> least 20 years, if not forever.
>