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Recent discovery: there's a native <datalist> element, well supported except for Firefox@Android. It's a combo of <select> and filtering (a combo box, to use the Windows parlance).

https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datal...

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The big downside is that datalist will only show exact matches of what you've put in. If you're doing a fuzzy search somewhere (or the user has a typo) and want to offer search suggestions, a native datalist doesn't work. I wish there was an attribute that forced all options to appear when filtering happens elsewhere and options are dynamic.

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