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RE: Question about controlling behavior of <select> element

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jun 7, 2006 9:00AM

I think that would be a potential access issue also - just like if you
click the scroll bar in a long document, you shouldn't need to keep the
mouse pointer directly on or above the control. I think that the right
thing to do here is to not modify the default behavior.

That being said, I occasionally have this problem myself when
interacting with an application with a scrollable area and need to
remember toclick outside of the scrolling area to make the uber-window
scroll. Fortunately I don't think that it is a mystery to the user what
is going on - the trick is whether they know to click elsewhere to get
the desired behavior.

AWK

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> Alastair Campbell
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> <select> element
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> Moore, Michael wrote:
> > Unfortunately my users are bound to IE
>
> Given that, you might try to replicate the Firefox behaviour:
> only scroll the select if the mouse is over it (including
> area available when open).
>
> However, I'm not sure if there is a JavaScript hook that would work?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -Alastair
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