input with datalist

montoyam

html5 has a text/dropdown combo box so the user can free-type or select from drop-down.: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5650457/html-select-form-with-option-to-enter-custom-value

Is there a way to use this in Editor?

allan

OOooo - I wasn't aware of that option in HTML5!

Yes you could use that with Editor - the datalist element would be up to you to create and update the options of, but once you have it in the document add:

attr: {
  list: 'my-data-list'
}

to the object for your field.

Allan

montoyam

I see Select2 has a feature like this too. I may look into that first. Thank you though.

markco84

Is it possible to get the data-value field instead of the value?

allan

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean by the data-value. Do you mean an attribute, or something else? What else do you want to do with it?

Thanks,
Allan

markco84

Yes with data list I was trying to use data-value as an attribute. I ended up using select2 as well. It allowed me to set a value but still display a user friendly item.

Thanks,