[jQuery] Re: Is there a 'dropdown button' plugin?

I ended up combining the standard ui button with a textbox and a
'search' icon <a> all in a row, styling it so as to emulate the
Firefox appearance (more or less)

http://www.gotodon.net/dropbutton/selectbutton.jpg

The ui button made for a nicer appearance, as I needed to style other
dropdown lists anyway

On Aug 28, 11:50 pm, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote:
> maybe this?
>
> http://www.givainc.com/labs/linkselect_jquery_plugin.htm
>
> - Jack
>
> donb wrote:
> > That's what I'd call it, anyway.  This would be a captioned button
> > with a small arrow you'd click on.  That would drop down a list of
> > button captions, changing the caption of the button when it collapses.
>
> > The upshot is, the button would have variable onclick functionality,
> > dependent upon the current caption of the button.  I suppose it would
> > merely result in a different value of the button's 'name=' attribute
> > when the container form is submitted.
>
> > My goal is to pair something like that with a textbox for searching
> > one of several different fields (the button caption would be 'name',
> > 'phone', 'email' for example, and clicking the button would search for
> > the textbox string in whichever field the button says.
>
> > I'm pretty sure how I'd make one but if it's already been done, why
> > reinvent.  Elsewise, I'm diving in.
>
> > thanks,
>
> > Don