On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Luobin Yang <yangluob@isu.edu> wrote:
Hi,
I have a 'select' tag in a tool's XML file, ... when the number of options exceeds 20, then drop down menu of the web interface displays "Click to Select or Search" ... Why the behavior changed when there are 20 options or more for a drop down menu?
Thanks, Luobin
The drop down list becomes very hard to use with lots of entries (for example we have lots of local BLAST databases offered to the user), and in that situation the search works really well. So for most cases, the search system is much more user friendly. You have a special case wanting a blank entry in the list, there may be a better way to handle that. One idea might be to use a caption like <DEFAULT> instead of an empty string? Peter