i haven't made any progress except to discover that i don't know the
underlying cause. if i comment out a method assignment, it works
okay, but the script then won't operate correctly. i like your idea
of providing a short circuit for problem fields, maybe a
skip-validation attribute/property would do the trick for the short
term. i'll see about cranking it out today.

i've done the multi-select with checkboxes by putting them in a
scrolling div that is the same size as a listbox. i've found that my
users tend to understand checkboxes better than control+click.


--- In validation@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Howe" <graham@...> wrote:
>
> > good news: it was easy to reproduce. bad news: i'm having difficulty
> > isolating the problem. a workaround that may or may not help you is
> > to use something like a checkbox list. i'm a bit baffled right now
> so
> > it may take me some time to figure out what i hosed up.
>
> Any progress at all? Unfortunately I don't have the screen space to
> use a checkbox list as there are a lot of options in each dropdown and
> several dropdowns on the page. So a fix would be most welcome.
>
> In fact the fields in question do not actually require validation, so
> if you were able to allow multiple selection with validation disabled
> for those fields then that would be a possible work around for me in
> the short term.
>
> Graham
>