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I would love to see auto-complete text entry used in country fields. Provide the massive drop-down as usual, and then in JavaScript replace it with a nice auto

• nrr 17y ago
  I've found that just having folks enter free-form information works amazingly well too. The caveat is that you have to make sure error handling sucks a bit less; otherwise, you run into people getting frustrated that their country isn't listed or that they're using a foreign name for it or similar. ... or maybe you could dump those cases into a customer service bin straight away and have those folks talk to a real human to straighten things out.
• arnorhs 17y ago
  A better alternative might be just to list the name of the country the users's IP address is originating from, in no input field, just as text - with some button or method of changing it - that could bring up a nicely organized/filterable country list.
• dchest 17y ago
  Don't drop-downs already have "find as you type"? Focus on a drop-down, press a few letters.
  • ams6110 17y ago
    In most browsers yes. Some, and specifically IE6, this works only for the first letter of the option, not cumulatively. E.g. typing 'd' then 'e' leaves the dropdown focused on the first option starting with 'e', rather than 'de'.