Tooltips for drop down boxes

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Tooltips for drop down boxes

Mar 11th, 2008

I have a drop down box of a fixed width. That drop down box needs to contain some values that are longer than the desired width. I'm happy for those values to be truncated, but I would like to display the full text in a tooltip (one that I could format to be a multi-lined one) as the option is hovered over (not after you select an option).

Does anyone know if there's an event that's generated when scrolling through the options of a drop down box? I'm taking a guess that there is one, because options are highlighted as you scroll over them, but can you use that event to trigger other functions or is it off limits?

Thanks.