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Subject:Re: Is there an "official" term for this process? From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Dec 1999 03:06:36 -0800
At 12:16 PM -0800 12/15/99, John Posada wrote:
>What I need the name for is the following process:
>
>Start typing in the first field. As you enter letters
>in the first field, the selection on the list in the
>second field gets reduced to match with what is being
>typed in the first field.
I don't know whether it's "official", but for what it's worth, I usually
call this sort of thing a "filtered list" and the process "filtering".
