[thelist] Multiple select elements rethink.

[Tim Beadle]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 17:24, Chris Hayes wrote:
> While I'm in a rantish mood... multiple select lists!?!  Does anybody else
> feel like I do that the functionality where one click deselects all previous
> selections is insane?  That's one little slip up and you have to reselect
> everything again.

But it is *expected* behaviour, because that's how desktop apps work.
Having multiple selects and javascript to move options from a
"non-selected" list to a "selected" list (and to select all the options
in the "selected" list at submit-time) is a good workaround.

Tim
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