David, great suggestion. Found just what I was looking for here http://jsfiddle.net/x6cfF/4/ For those who want to filter long dropdown boxes with many entries, you may want to look into that. I now use it whenever I can. Short and sweet and works like a charm. By default it only finds entries starting with what you type but it can be tweaked to find entries where the text appears anywhere in the entries. Cheers

Do you plan to have your own servers in 27 countries? If you do, start your own VPN company and make some money in the process. Otherwise, having your own VPN server is 1. unnecessary because there are plenty of VPN service providers 2. impractical because you will be severely limited in your access points 3. an unnecessary, potentially prohibitive, expense you have to carry 99.9% of people just want some reasonable way to not be constantly tracked or spied upon or to have access to websites that would otherwise not be accessible because of geographic limitations. For that purpose, any good VPN service is more than adequate and that was what the poster was looking for. The only thing that really counts is that the VPN provider does NOT keep logs and that they are NOT based in the USA or the UK, the two largest mass surveillance centres in the world.

Shuqian Ying wrote:

3. Setting up of VPN is not easy.

This is absolute rubbish in most cases. I use CyberGhostVPN and once you install the client all you have to do is login, select the country and you're done. If so desired, you can even select a specific server in the country. They have almost 900 servers in 27 countries and do not keep logs so there will be nothing to hand over when some 3-letter agency comes calling.

Thanks David. Not sure if that's what you're saying but I am not developing a mobile app but want to do it for a mobile website. However, I will start looking for anything that will allow me to filter on a website. If you can suggest any places I should look I'd appreciate it. Btw I do not use ASP or .net

That's what I was afraid of but I thought I'd give it a shot. Don't know why that is not incorporated natively but still hoping someone will come up with a viable solution. Thanks

The question is, is there a way to force a keyboard to pop up, through js or otherwise to achieve the same results I get on my desktop. Hope that clarifies. :-)

Does your reply help in any way?

When I want to select from a dropdown box on a desktop browser I can use the keyboard to type a letter to cut the searching short, e.g. press K and the list will jump to entries starting with K. Unfortunately this does not work on my BB (not sure about Android or iPhone) and I don't know if it is even possible on mobile to achieve a similar result. BB just shows the dropdown box and forces me to scroll the entire list. I have already shortened the list but the number of entries can still be substantial (50 - 100 entries). I have searched high and low to see if I can force a keyboard to pop up or jump to specific entries but came up empty. Any help would be appreciated.