datalist behaves differently from select with handling option value/textContent about content HOT 3 CLOSED

partial and weird solution is to use, not much expected to be, the atribute autocomplete="off" (or "on"),
but then

• single click to focus filed does not open the list, (needs second click to show it, or use text input to start search,
• the styling of the list suddenly looks worse (no more nice padding in chromium based browser, probably temporary thing in works)

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A select is different from a datalist; I don't know why you would be looking to switch from one to another. A select limits the number of possible inputs to a finite range, but a datalist just provides supplemental information to an input and allows quick selection of common inputs, but it's still an input that accepts arbitrary text input at the end of the day.

Nevertheless I think we should add an example showing what it's like.

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as i wrote in original post, it behaves diferent from select but many ppl tend to try use it because its like a "select with autocomplete" - therefore i did not push this to changing the behave way, just to mention it as warning in this description, to warn people about the difference. bc many ppl may tend to use it a "select with search/autocomplete":

• datalist allows also entering values not in list
• datalist also uses "same as select" option tags, but displays them diferently (does usually hide text content of tag, instead displays option value + label attributes

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