Articles Tagged datalist

Have you ever had a form that needed to accept a short, arbitrary bit of text? Like a name or whatever. That’s exactly what <input type="text"/> is for. There are lots of different input types (and modes!), and picking the right one is a great idea.

But this little story is about something else and applies to any of them.

What if the text needs to be arbitrary (like “What’s your favorite color?”) so people can type in whatever, … Read article “Datalist is for suggesting values without enforcing values”

I saw an HTML5 date input the other day, which had the dropdown arrow on the right, which I’ve grown accustom to clicking to reveal a calendar datepicker in which to choose a date.

Typically, that looks like this:… Read article “Datalists for Different Input Types”