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Re: Selects with drop downs

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 14, 2018 7:23AM

On 14/03/2018 12:54, Ryan E. Benson wrote:
> Pardon the title, I am not sure what these things are officially called.
> There's a group bent on using select elements aka dropdowns with built-in
> search/filter functions. I believe there was a thread here a while ago, but
> can't find it. Unless I am mistaken, the thread leaned towards not using
> them, even though they can be made accessible. The PM and the second
> developer didn't know what framework they were using, and have yet to hear
> back from the lead, but they think Bootstrap "or based on it."
>
> Any pointers would be great, since i have yet to get access to their code.

What you're describing are probably comboboxes
https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#combobox

Plain Bootstrap doesn't have any ready-made filterable/searchable
combobox/autocomplete type functionality, so if they're using Bootstrap,
it's likely only providing the look and feel and the actual
functionality is done through a Bootstrap extension/plugin or different
underlying framework.

And the discussion thread on here you're probably thinking of is this, I
think: https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadÂ…66

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