Hi everyone, I am looking around for a good way to build an unobtrusive replacement for a select field. I haven't found anything that matches my requirements (or dreams?). Starting points, suggestions, links... any help would be greatly appreciated.
I really don't want a groovy custom graphic widget. I just want it to look like the select is able to display images when the list is popped up. This is not a multi-select. Just a normal popup-type select. Dreams: • Invisible until clicked (so the browser select is visible). • Displays a pretty standard list of options... only each has a thumbnail image along with the filename. My main problems are: • How to build a select that will somehow hold the extra data needed. I'd tried to just stick the extra image into the options of the select but that would make the page invalid html. • How to deal with mouse-events so the popup "list" behaves well. Divs and javascript reminds me of painful times with Movieclips and Actionscript. :) As you might guess I have done some tests and am part of the way there... I thought it would be better to ask for advice now before I put too much time into it and work in the wrong direction. thanks Martin
