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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Mar 14, 2018 8:03AM

Are these datalists?
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_datalist.asp

Otherwise, AccDC has some fantastic comboboxes:
http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Comboboxes/ARIA%20Comboboxes%20(Native%20Inputs,%20Editable%20and%20Readonly)/demo.htm

http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Comboboxes/ARIA%20Comboboxes%20(Native%20Inputs,%20Multiselect%20Editable%20with%20Substring%20Match)/demo.htm

http://whatsock.com/tsg/Coding%20Arena/ARIA%20Comboboxes/ARIA%20Comboboxes%20(Simulated,%20Readonly)/demo.htm

There are several others, but you can find them in the technical style
guide.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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.
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
> > > > >