Re: Datalist suggestion

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Duclos <dunic777@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm creating a contact form and I was using the <select> tag and I
> discovered the <datalist> tag and I think it's very useful, because it's
> dynamic (you can write and have some options at the same time). The
> problem is that I can't minimize the list of option with size="5" like
> with <select> tag. With <datalist>, I have like 30 options showing at
> the same time without scrollbar, so we can't see all of them...
>
> My suggestion is to add css style like <select> to change how the
> datalist look (color, shape, etc) and to be able to only show the first
> X options in the list when you are clicking to write what you want.

That's a browser quality-of-implementation bug; they shouldn't be
displaying entries in such a way that they scroll off screen and are
unreachable.  Please report it in the relevant browser's bug-tracking
tool.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 1 December 2014 22:50:30 UTC