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The main problem with datalists are that browsers tried to work around them with autocomplete which overlay on top of the datalist. Ridiculous situation.

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You can set the attribute autocomplete=“off” on the corresponding <input> in order to prevent this from happening. See the relevant MDN page for more details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

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