Posted by msaladin on 08/30/07 06:21

I cannot provide you with the real page, because the page works only
in the context of a web-application (which is not available on the
internet). That's the reason I tried to create a HTML page as simple
as possible to provide you guys not with the actual JSP/HTML/
Javascript mess, but with a HTML page where the important facts remain
valid: IExplorer truncates the OPTION-tag to the same width as the
SELECT-tag.

The web-application where I'm using this can initiate some tasks on
servers where an agent is installed. The agent can be installed on 10
servers, or on 1'000 servers, depening on the company that is using
the software. What I want to do is to provide the user with two
different ways to specify on which server he wants to execute a task:

a)
The user knows the servername, he can enter it in the textbox. If the
servername does not match exactly a known servername, the servlet can
try to guess it.

b)
The user does not know the servername, he will use the SELECT-box.
Once the user has selected an OPTION, the OPTION-value is inserted in
the textbox (via Javascript). This select box just shows the user all
valid servers.

So the only reason I need the SELECT-field in this case is to provide
a list with all possible entries for the textbox. If this seems to be
a problem, I could always solve the problem by providing an icon just
after the textbox, and open a new HTML page with a list of all
servers. But just to select a server, this seems to be too cumbersome.

Regards

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