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Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

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Re: Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

#6

I've been using this for a while. Could have sworn I found it on HN. Anyway, great utility, extremely useful and could well be the way native drop downs should work.

You may have. I just found it this morning by clicking through a changelog blog post.

Re: Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

#7
Really good stuff!

The only thing I find missing is that, with the keyboard on a multiple select box, I can't remove my 1st choice without having to remove my 2nd choice too. (So, for instance if I choose Polar Bear and also choose Brown Bear, I try to move my cursor between them in order to Backspace over Polar Bear but I can't. I have to Backspace over Brown Bear + Polar Bear in order to delete Polar Bear.) It would be nice if, when I used my direction keys, it would highlight the selected items individually and then let me hit Delete or Backspace on my keyboard to delete just that one.

Re: Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

#9
post #7

Really good stuff! The only thing I find missing is that, with the keyboard on a multiple select box, I can't remove my 1st choice without having to remove my 2nd choice too. (So, for instance if I choose Polar Bear and also choose Brown Bear, I try to move my cursor between them in order to Backspace over Polar Bear but I can't. I have to Backspace over Brown Bear + Polar Bear in order to delete Polar Bear.) It woul…

There appears to be several pull requests related to keyboard controls. I haven't looked into any of them in depth but one of them may solve the issues you are talking about.
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