Bug 5739

Summary: select elements should jump to a given typed letter
Product: WebKit Reporter: Brad Fults <bfults>
Component: FormsAssignee: Dave Hyatt <hyatt>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: ian
Priority: P2    
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   

Description Brad Fults 2005-11-14 09:08:34 PST 
Using select elements with large amounts of options (more than 500) is
cumbersome. Pressing a key on the keyboard while a select element has focus
should jump to the first option starting with the typed letter (if there is one).

For bonus points, continued typing could further refine the search (like Firefox
does).
Comment 1 Dave Hyatt 2005-11-14 10:48:43 PST 
Note that selects do support this, but you have to hit space first with the select focused.  (Go figure.)  We 
should support this without requiring the space bar to be hit first.
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2006-10-27 03:14:26 PDT 
Fixed in r17331.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9764 ***