reinput userscript
Jan 30, 2006, 02:05am EST
My friend Doug was telling me how he hates all drop down boxes found in web pages and would rather see sites using autocomplete style input boxes instead. So, during last night’s SuperHappyDevHouse, I wrote a greasemonkey script to automatically do this conversion.
<select> tags on a page
and replaces them with autocompleting text input boxes. I’m using a slightly
modified version of
Gadgetopia’s AutoSuggest to
do the suggestions.
It colors all the input boxes that it creates so it’s obvious to you what’s
been modified. It also tries to stop the form from being submitted if you enter
an invalid menu option. Unfortunately, it’s not able to stop javascript form
submission (form.submit()), so it doesn’t always work. You can
go to UPS.com to see it’s brokenness.
tony at Jan 30, 2006, 12:44pm EST
When the box is blank, it shows all the options in the original order. Ideally, this would have a scroll bar attached to it if the full list is longer than the screen.