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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Alternative and fast option to some very useful jQuery features?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:53:24 +0000
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justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 12:25:12 AM UTC-4, justaguy wrote:
>> On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 7:29:32 AM UTC-4, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> > justaguy  writes:
>> > 
>> > > ... for one page, I need to use jQuery's autosuggest feature, and for
>> > > this feature only
<snip>
>> > With HTML5 capable browsers, you can do something very similar simply by
>> > using the "list" attribute, but that may not suit your needs.
>> > 
>> 
>> Good to know.  And say we have the following HTML5 list code:
>> <input list="browsers" name="browser" id="browser">
>>   <datalist id="browsers">
>>     <option value="Internet Explorer">
>>     <option value="Firefox">
>>     <option value="Chrome">
>>     <option value="Opera">
>>     <option value="Safari">
>>   </datalist>
>> How do we reference the selected data option?
>> I attempted to look at the values of id of "browser" and of
>> "browsers" in vain, considering datalist as select, thus, we have
>> options and selectedIndex etc is also getting no where.
>> 
>
> Sorry, my bad.
> document.getElementById('browser').value
> would do.

Sure, but the idea is that the browser will simply suggest possible
items from the list when the user types.  Support for this is not
universal, of course.

-- 
Ben.