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Re: Selects with drop downs

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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Mar 15, 2018 3:29AM

I think you should file the bug on Chrome and put a message that people
should use Firefox or it may not work as expected. There is no excuse for
browsers to not support HTML5 completely after 10 years.
Most screen reader users use Firefox anyways, so datalists work great.
Thank you,


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

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Steve Green <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Browser support for <datalist> is very poor, which is a shame because it
> does exactly what I need in our CRM system.
>
> The W3Schools website says that Safari does not support it at all. It
> works in Chrome but it's got a nasty behaviour insofar as the list does not
> fully repopulate if you type some characters and then delete them all. You
> have to either close the dropdown and re-open it, or click in the textbox.
>
> Steve
>
>