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HTML
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<body>
<div style="margin:30px auto; width:400px; border:1px #888 solid; padding:20px; background-color:#F8F4F0">
<h3 style="text-align:center">Tab In, To Open Select Box</h3><br/><br/>
<form>
<input style="width:230px" type="text" name="start" value="Start here then tab to next input" tabindex="1" /><br/><br/>
<h4>One to Seven</h4>
<div class="selectHolder">
<select class="select" size="1" expandto="7" tabindex="2">
<option value="1" selected="selected">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
<option value="3">Three</option>
<option value="4">Four</option>
<option value="5">Five</option>
<option value="6">Six</option>
<option value="7">Seven</option>
</select>
</div>
<h4>One to Ten</h4>
<div class="selectHolder" >
<select class="select" size="1" expandto="10" tabindex="3" style="width:220px;">
<option value="1" selected="selected">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
<option value="3">Three</option>
<option value="4">Four</option>
<option value="5">Five</option>
<option value="6">Six</option>
<option value="7">Seven</option>
<option value="8">Eight</option>
<option value="9">Nine</option>
<option value="10">Ten</option>
</select>
</div>
<h4>One to Four</h4>
<div class="selectHolder tab4">
<select class="select" size="1" expandto="4" tabindex="4" style="width:240px;">
<option value="1" selected="selected">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
<option value="3">Three</option>
<option value="4">Four</option>
</select>
</div>
<h4>One to Dog</h4>
<div class="selectHolder tab4">
<select class="select" size="1" expandto="5" tabindex="5" style="width:260px;">
<option value="1" selected="selected">One</option>
<option value="2">BAT</option>
...
CSS
<style type="text/css">
select{position:absolute}
.selectHolder{position:relative; height:45px}
h4{margin:10px 0;}
h5{margin:50px 0 0 0; text-align:center; font-weight:normal }
</style>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function(){
$('select').focus(function(){
$(this).attr("size",$(this).attr("expandto"));
var x = "select[tabindex='" + (parseInt($(this).attr('tabindex'),10) + 1) + "']";
//$(x).fadeTo(50,0);
});
$('select').blur(function(){
$(this).attr("size",1);
var x = "select[tabindex='" + (parseInt($(this).attr('tabindex'),10) + 1) + "']";
//$(x).fadeTo('fast',1.0);
});
$('select').change(function(){
$(this).attr("size",1);
var x = "select[tabindex='" + (parseInt($(this).attr('tabindex'),10) + 1) + "']";
//$(x).fadeTo('fast',1.0);
});
});