For Pete's Sake, Don't Touch HTML Inputs

Re:For Pete's Sake, Don't Touch HTML Inputs by kripke on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:48PM (#30959477)

I'm not sure what you are calling an "editable combo box", but would <datalist> [1] fit the bill?

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...

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Re:For Pete's Sake, Don't Touch HTML Inputs by GuB-42 on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:35PM (#30962197)

Yes.

But full support is relatively recent and for some reason, it doesn't behave like a typical editable combo box: it looks like a regular text field until you interact with it, while most GUI toolkits display them as a text field within a combo box frame, with the down arrow button always visible. Unless there is some special styling, why not use the OS default look and feel?

Still a step in the good direction, but why so late? and why the nonstandard behavior?

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Re:For Pete's Sake, Don't Touch HTML Inputs by bobkazamakis on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:00PM (#30960427)

better example might have been drag and drop file forms

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