An individual item in a richlistbox
.
- Attributes
- disabled, searchlabel, selected, tabindex, value
Examples
(example needed)
Attributes
-
disabled
- Type: boolean
-
Indicates whether the element is disabled or not. If this element is set to
true
the element is disabled. Disabled elements are usually drawn with grayed-out text. If the element is disabled, it does not respond to user actions, it cannot be focused, and thecommand
event will not fire. -
Visible controls have a
disabled
property which, except for menus and menuitems, is normally preferred to use of the attribute, as it may need to update additional state.
-
searchlabel
- Type: string
- Text used for 'find-as-you-type' (FAYT) searching. In situations where the search text is ambiguous or missing, searchlabel can be used to give context to FAYT. If searchlabel is not present, FAYT falls back to use the label property.
-
selected
- Type: boolean
- Indicates whether the element is selected or not. This value is read-only. To change the selection, set either the
selectedIndex
orselectedItem
property of the containing element.
-
tabindex
- Type: integer
- The tab order of the element. The tab order is the order in which the focus is moved when the user presses the "
tab
" key. Elements with a highertabindex
are later in the tab sequence.
-
value
- Type: string
-
The string attribute allows you to associate a data value with an element. It is not used for any specific purpose, but you can access it with a script for your own use. Be aware, however, that some elements, such as textbox will display the value visually, so in order to merely associate data with an element, you could 1) Use another attribute like "value2" or "data-myAtt" (as in the HTML5 draft), as XUL does not require validation (less future-proof); 2) Use setAttributeNS() to put custom attributes in a non-XUL namespace (serializable and future-proof); 3) Use setUserData() (future-proof and clean, but not easily serializable). For user editable
menulist
elements, the contents, as visible to the user, are read and set using the Menulist.value syntax. For those elements, setAttribute("value", myValue) and getAttribute("value") do not access or affect the contents displayed to the user.
Properties
-
accessible
-
Type:
nsIAccessible
- Returns the accessibility object for the element.
searchLabel
- Type: string
- Gets and sets the value of the
searchlabel
attribute.
-
selected
- Type: boolean
-
This property's value is
true
if this element is selected, orfalse
if it is not. This property is read only. This property is available formenuitem
andmenuseparator
elements in Firefox 3.
-
value
- Type: string
-
Gets and sets the value of the
value
attribute. Fortextbox
and user editablemenulist
elements, the contents, as visible to the user, are read and set using theTextbox.value
and Menulist.value syntax.