I'm trying to create a search box to search for colleges inside the united states. For now I'm using a hard coded set of colleges, but what I'm asking about is I want the user to start searching, when suggestions show up. Then the user must choose from one of the suggestions rather than being able to look for "aksdbg", because such a college does not exist. Basically what I'm doing is a radio button list, but the list is too long for me to list all the colleges for the user to choose from. Thanks
I may not be understanding you correctly but I believe jQueryUI does exactly what you are asking with ease. https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
Auto-complete will let you hard-code those terms and as people search will display matches.