Re: LYNX-DEV searching in lists

[Foteos Macrides]

Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
>[...] search does work for radio button
>text so if the focus is to ba able to alter selects to buttons then you
>are all set.
>[...]
>Speaking of the select/button issue.  My mind is drawing a blank here, but
>don't some select menus allow you to choose multiple items? 

        For radio buttons and checkboxes indicated as such in the markup,
the form field "placeholder" becomes "___", which will be replaced on
page display with "( )", "(*)", "[ ]", or "[X]", and the descriptions
become part of the surrounding text in the HText structure, such that
they are included in the second phase of a WHEREIS search.

        SELECT can have a MULTIPLE attribute, such that the OPTIONs
should be treated as if they were checkboxes, instead of as if they
were radio buttons.  Lynx literally converts a SELECT with MULTIPLE
into a series of checkboxes, instead of setting up one field for
expansion into a popup.

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