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<datalist> Element

Category

User input

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 20)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Shows a list of pre-defined options to suggest to the user when entering an input element.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-list-attribute
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=242455

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist

Samples: http://simpl.info/datalist

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