by the way, merry Christmas!

Actually, I made some changes already – deleted all styling from plugin – I will style everything in my css file.

Now I’m thinking about one more thing – how to put empty option first for categories drop-down, like it is for archives drop-down. And it will be perfect.. It will be the same like I would make if I could

I’ve been playing with it this evening, and I believe I’ve got a version that will do what you’re looking for. I’m wrapping up the “what’s changed” stuff in the readme.txt file, and then I’ll commit it to the WordPress plug-in directory. Version 2.0 is the new one – the parameters will be a bit different, but passing ‘auto’ as the first one will create the auto-navigating select boxes. Thanks for asking the question – I actually found a bug while I was going back over the code!

I have a mouse – sometimes, though, I don’t use a mouse. However, I used to work with a group of mainframe guys who were keyboard junkies. And, since, at the time, I was responsible for making pages that they used, I made sure they worked.

I agree with you that it’s hard to navigate without mouse, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use mouse while browsing.. I think mouse is the most popular part of PC/laptop – after monitor/screen and keyboard

As to why I don’t like auto-navigating select boxes… First, you can’t really use them if you don’t use a mouse. If you tab to the field and push the down-arrow, you get navigated to the next item on the list. Second, if you click on one by mistake, you have to make sure you select the one that was selected, or you get navigated away. A third, but now nearly moot point, was that in IE 6, if you had the select box as the focused element on a web page, and scrolled the mouse wheel, it scrolled the select box instead of the web page. IE 7 and Firefox don’t do that, and those are the browsers I use most of the time.