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We have all seen countless instances of forms with a select drop down having one of it’s options as “Other” and on choosing that option, we get to see a input text box (which was hidden all along) asking us to type in our input.
Is there a better way to implement this? Are there plugins out there which will let me do this better? Or are standard HTML elements suffice (some setting to a select tag, may be) ?
An editable combobox might be a good alternative. The challenge is to style it in such a way that it is clear to the user that he can actually edit the contents of the control, rather than only selecting the provided default contents.