Rails Combo Box

dubstep · January 17, 2011, 11:22pm

Gee there were over 200 hits on combo box.

Some just seem to refer to a pulldown list, versus a pulldown list
where values can be added.

As an experiment, I made an attempt at build a combo box using
a little jquery (and UJS), a little rails and a little css. Not
perfect or fancy, but fairly simple

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/salex/783582

combobox.rb

#	This is yet another attempt at doing the elusive combo box.
#	Since I moved to jquery,I wanted to see if there was something out there
#	that was better then what I found a few years ago. There was
#	a jquery plugin, but I am not sure how it worked - didn't see where you could enter text!
#	You should be able to either select from a pulldown list, or add an item that is not in the list. 

# 	This in a nutshell overlays a 13em input text field over a 15em select tag. (css)
#	There is a helper method build_combo_box where you send the form_builder object, the method,
#	the choices and the current value. It builds the combo box.

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