Example of a dynamic HTML5 datalist control · Raymond Camden
I've made no secret of being a huge fan of the updates to forms within HTML5. One of the more interesting updates is the datalist control. This control gives you basic autocomplete support for an input field. At its simplest, you create the datalist control options, tie it to a control, and when the user types, they see items that match your initial list. Consider this example.
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| <!doctype html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Example 0</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <p> | |
| <input type="text" name="search" id="search" placeholder="Type Something" list="searchresults" autocomplete="off"> | |
| <datalist id="searchresults"> | |
| <option>Ray</option> | |
| <option>Scott</option> | |
| <option>Todd</option> | |
| <option>Dave</option> | |
| <option>Jeanne</option> | |
| <option>Jacob</option> | |
| </datalist> | |
| </p> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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