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>The main problem is there isn't a standard "combobox" at all to speak of

But there is. You'll be so happy to learn about datalist today,

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_d...

It use to work but chrome on android shows the datalist items as a horizontal scrollable row above the keyboard (useless) and ignores input (even more useless) on windows it shows the datalist as a scrollable popup (confusing?) and ignores input (useless) while firefox on android completely ignores datalist and on windows you have to click the input twice to have the initial list show up.

It took forever but safari mobile got it right.

Extra fun to be had if you attempt to dynamically update the list.

Conclusion: utter garbage, stay away from it.

I just typed this by hand (lol) in 3-4 minutes:

https://jsfiddle.net/tjc4mpxe/

This is what we are waiting for? This is what is taking so long for browsers to support?

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