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20 Comments
- ashevilletech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice indeed.
Hey joey (from choo_bacca) - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice. I've been using scrolling DIVs + checkbox lists for a while now in these instances (multi-selects are always confusing, IMHO).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, very well done, and there's probably alot of people who havent used this.
- Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice, I am sure many users hate the normal list boxes.. And as a developer you need to include directions so they know that they can multi select.
This solution seems to be much more clear to the user. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice ... a "why didn't I think of that" thing. Definetly something I'll be using.
- evizaer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um. This looks ugly and bulky to me. It's just a series of checkboxes in an iFrame. Wonderful. I don't care. No digg.
- emag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Only problem I have is in selecting an entire range of items. I used to be able to click, scroll, shift-click. Both the basic and fancy examples here, you have to click, click, click, ..., scroll, click, click, .... etc.
And yes, I DO actually select ranges in multi-select boxes somewhat regularly... - whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very attractive alternative.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This seems like one of those increasingly rare examples of DHTML that are actually interesting and well done. Yes, I'm sure people will say "I've been using it for years" or "Its not really a big deal." That may be true, but this is nicely done.
- brianrlawson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree, emag. It seems that this is getting some favorable response, but it looks like a user experience no-no to me.
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quoth Kinderstod: "So instead of using 5 lines to make a multiselect box, it's better and more Web 3.0 to use 80 lines of hacked CSS + Jscript. Right."
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but if you RTFA (what is this, Slashdot) you'll see that it's simply styling a list of checkboxes with CSS as an alternative to the oft-clumsy dropdown box (that as emag pointed out is still sometimes necessary). Nothing more. The Javascript is because IE is crap ... it isn't necessary for functionality. - khostal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been using a version drop downs originally found in this great tutorial:
http://easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect/
It's nice in that it keeps the feeling of drop downs and can be formatted to take up a small space if necessary. It also degrades nicely back into regular form fields for browsers that do not/will not support JavaScript/CSS... - jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well done, simple yet elegant
- KicktheDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It seems that this is getting some favorable response, but it looks like a user experience no-no to me."
Depends on your audience, me thinks. This would be very handy for something like category selection.
I wonder if you can use radio buttons, instead of check boxes, to force single selection. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Might confuse some people but still neat.
- SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool.
- jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gnifty!
- Devision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kinderstod,
"So instead of using 5 lines to make a multiselect box, it's better and more Web 3.0 to use 80 lines of hacked CSS + Jscript. Right."
Thats why it's called ALTERNATIVE to Select Boxes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0
- kinderstod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So instead of using 5 lines to make a multiselect box, it's better and more Web 3.0 to use 80 lines of hacked CSS + Jscript. Right.
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