I have this simple select html field, i am learning JS, I just want to have a autocomplete kind of thing in this field, so when user type it should have this kind of functionality, can It be done?
<html>
<body>
<select>
<option>USA</option>
<option>India</option>
<option>Canada</option>
<option>UK</option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
I have used this library and modified it for my needs. I had modified it to have search clear and custom styling of dropdown. Easy to do. You can also give it a try. https://davidstutz.github.io/bootstrap-multiselect/
Below is the example
<!-- Initialize the plugin: -->
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example-getting-started').multiselect({
enableFiltering: true,
includeFilterClearBtn: false
});
});
.hide
{
display:none;}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-TX8t27EcRE3e/ihU7zmQxVncDAy5uIKz4rEkgIXeMed4M0jlfIDPvg6uqKI2xXr2" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-ho+j7jyWK8fNQe+A12Hb8AhRq26LrZ/JpcUGGOn+Y7RsweNrtN/tE3MoK7ZeZDyx" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-multiselect/1.1.1/js/bootstrap-multiselect.min.js" integrity="sha512-fp+kGodOXYBIPyIXInWgdH2vTMiOfbLC9YqwEHslkUxc8JLI7eBL2UQ8/HbB5YehvynU3gA3klc84rAQcTQvXA==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>
<body>
<select id="example-getting-started" class="hide">
<option value="usa">USA</option>
<option value="india">India</option>
<option value="canada">Canada</option>
<option value="uk">UK</option>
</select>
</body>