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Re: Question about controlling behavior of <select> element

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From: ben morrison
Date: Jun 7, 2006 7:50AM

On 6/7/06, Moore, Michael < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> When the element has focus you can scroll through the all of the options
> using the mouse wheel. Users are accidentally scrolling through the
> options when they mean to be scrolling down the page.
>
> My question is simple, is there a way to disable mouse wheel activated
> scrolling of the <select> element?

This is the default action for any select box on a page and you
shouldn't change the way it works, there has to be a cut-off point
where the end-user has to learn how to use web sites and where
developers try and help them. In this case I would steer clear of
changing any default behaviour as you will also confuse users who are
trying to scroll in the select box and then find themsleves scrolling
donw the page.

ben