{
  "title":"Datalist element",
  "description":"Method of setting a list of options for a user to select in a text field, while leaving the ability to enter a custom value.",
  "spec":"https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#the-datalist-element",
  "status":"ls",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/11/firefox-4-html5-forms/",
      "title":"Mozilla Hacks article"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://afarkas.github.com/webshim/demos/",
      "title":"HTML5 Library including datalist support"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/datalist",
      "title":"MDN reference"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/html/elements/datalist",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://demo.agektmr.com/datalist/",
      "title":"Eiji Kitamura's options demos & tests"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://github.com/thgreasi/datalist-polyfill",
      "title":"Minimal Datalist polyfill w/tutorial"
    }
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  "bugs":[
    
  ],
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  "notes":"While most commonly used on text fields, datalists can also be used on other input types. IE11 supports the element on `range` fields. Chrome and Opera also support datalists to suggest given values on `range`, `color` and date/time fields. ",
  "notes_by_num":{
    "1":"Partial support refers to [a bug](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=375637) where long lists of items are unscrollable resulting in unselectable options.",
    "2":"Partial support in IE refers to [significantly buggy behavior](http://playground.onereason.eu/2013/04/ie10s-lousy-support-for-datalists/) (IE11+ does send the input and change events upon selection). ",
    "3":"Partial support refers to no support for datalists on non-text fields (e.g. number, [range](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841942), [color](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960984))."
  },
  "usage_perc_y":37.39,
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  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"forms",
  "keywords":"list attribute",
  "ie_id":"datalistelement",
  "chrome_id":"6090950820495360",
  "firefox_id":"",
  "webkit_id":"",
  "shown":true
}