
How to Build Native HTML Autocomplete Search
To create a native autocomplete search in HTML, you can use the datalist
tag with a set of options
attached to an input
element. For example:
<label for="tech">Choose your tech:</label>
<input list="techlist" name="tech" id="tech" />
<datalist id="techlist">
<option value="HTML">
<option value="CSS">
<option value="JS">
</datalist>
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Note that the id
of the datalist
must match the list
attribute on an input
element.
You can try the behavior with the input below:
Currently, it has partial support on the latest versions of IE and Firefox, while other latest versions of major browsers are well supported.


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