[thelist] Use of <select> elements for navigation

Koutoulas, Pete PKOUTOUL at Fayette.k12.ky.us
Tue Jun 24 09:35:44 CDT 2003


I've always heard that it is bad practice to use form elements (select for
example) for purposes other than their intended use. Do you folks subscribe
to this philosophy? 

I know the select has been abused much for navigation when other methods
would work better, but what about a situation (currently faced by yours
truly) where you need to provide links to (and group) dozens of documents
without creating a huge page? In this case, I have about 10 groups of 10-25
documents each and it seems logical and economical to group these into
select groups. 

I know it is evil to break them for non-JavaScript browsers by making them
auto submit via a script, but other than that, would this be a good use of
select? What other high accessibility alternatives might there be?

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