Question

I have a list box control that contains enough items to list them with a scroll bar.

I’d like the user to be able to enter a few letters and have the ASP ListBox scroll to the first option whose text starts with those letters.

I’m hoping that JQuery offers some simple functionality or plug-in that works with the element, but so far, I’ve only seen plug-ins that work with scrolling DIVs.

Is there a way to scroll an ASP ListBox to a specified option?

EDIT

As @Alex Sexton stated, you can just select the option via javascript and it will scroll there automatically. Here is some simple JQuery to do just that:

$('#ListBox option:eq(6)').attr('selected', 'selected');

Answer 1

Your browser should handle the scroll automatically upon setting the selected attribute to “selected” on the element that you wish to put into view.