menu buttons and showname

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:

 > Often, this type of control has a call to action such as "Choose an
 > item", as opposed an indication "No selection".  It depends on the
 > context of your control.

It does, and I wish more Web designers understood that. ;)

<rant>
This became popular with form designers where they need to avoid having 
a default answer, indicating that some action must be taken for a 
control that requires a value.

But over the years I've seen many forms where that lead-in entry is used 
instead of a having any descriptive label next to it, and often without 
error-checking to ensure some other value was chosen anyway so they've 
made it useless in spite of themselves.
</rant>


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