I was wondering if it's at all possible to style the autocomplete box that appears from input fields.
( I know This question is the same but that doesnt have a answer and since its a few months old i figured i made a new post about it)
That image is of my login screen with the autocomplete box being all square and bulky compared to my input field. If it's not possible to style the box i'll simply turn autocomplette off but if it's at all possible i would be very interested.
New screenshot:
Yeah you can't do that since it's browser based. Here's a great example in jQuery that uses autocomplete. I use it all the time for sites - super slick.
http://www.devbridge.com/sourcery/components/jquery-autocomplete/
You can't modify the browsers' native functionality. Your best option is to find a plugin that overrides the autocomplete drop-down functionality and modify the code and style to your liking. Please take a look at jQuery's autocomplete plugin. http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#custom-data
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I am working on a simple web app using nothing but Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS.
I have created a form, which contains multiple input fields of type "text". Now I want to add a datepicker. I have tried adding an input field of type "date", but I really don't like the design of this datepicker and I haven't found any way of styling the calendar that pops up when clicking into this field.
My first question is: Is there a way to style the calendar of an input field of type "date"?
As I assume the answer to this question is "no", I have searched for an alternative. There are multiple GitHub projects out there, designing a calendar. One example is this. This example requires adding the html-code to my webpage. Initially, I wouldn't show the calendar-div, for example by setting its style to display: none in my css file. I would have to add a listener- to an input field of type "text" as well and then upon clicking into this field display the calendar. But this would rearrange the input fields below this "datepicker", which I don't want. Is there a way to just display the calendar and let it overlap with its surroundings, for example the input fields below this "datepicker"-field?
I would also appreciate any well known alternatives to styling datepickers with nothing but Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS, if there are any.
You have done your research and the answer is: No.
<input type="date"> or <input type="datetime-local"> are HTML inputs and its up to the browser vendor (Google, Mozilla, Apple) to decide how to render them.
If you open your dev tools and enable shadow DOM, you can even inspect the nodes created by these inputs but it's not recommended styling them.
It's a Front-end developer's life in 2022 (and perhaps more years to come) to introduce datepicker dependency or create datepicker yourself if you want to have specific look or functionality. From my experience, datepickers are not that hard to make but it's all the corner cases and localized edge cases you have to look out for. So I think it's easier to just go with a dependency.
If you don't want to bring full-fledged framework just for the datepicker then there are various options if you search for them.
You might like modern web components and you could search for date picker created with web components. These do not require any framework, just a supported browser. They usually come with their own stylesheets and JS with ability for some customization, I'd try it out.
Is there a way to autocomplete an input value (while the user is typing) with the top placed option suggested from the datalist by pressing enter (and do that with pure JS)?
Somehow all the information on the matter that I manage to find suggests only solutions using JQuery. I'm quite a beginner using JavaScript, so I am not familiar with the library. So, I wonder if there is any solution that can be perforemed using pure JS?
html does have the ability to support autocomplete, but it's very limited and leaves the options for autocomplete up to the browser. see https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_autocomplete.asp. You can use a library to enhance a normal input box, or build your own. Usually the way they work is by putting a absolute positioned div under the input when it has keyboard focus. A library that does this that I'm familiar with is called jqueryui https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/. this does use jquery, but there are other libraries out there that don't depend on such. https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/#/ comes up in a quick google search. you'll have to assess it's quality.
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How to style the browser's autocomplete dropdown box?
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Defaultly, when you input something to text field, you get suggestions with values you entered before. So my question is, is it possible to use CSS to modify appereance of that suggestion dropdown. Or could you please suggest javascript code to recreate its bahavior?
No, it is browser's native implementation. the browser doesn't even add or modify any new DOM element therefore you can not style the dropdown list. I am not 100% sure but it looks like the drop down list is on a different layer on top of the display page. You will need to have a your own Javascript implementation of autocomplete.
By the way to disable this browser behavior, add this to the input element:
autocomplete="off"
Note that not all browser support autocomplete attribute
You can't fiddle with the native browser's autocomplete box, but you can with custom implementations. I'd wager the most popular is this one: http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
I should note that the custom implementation won't serve up values the user has entered before unless you are capturing each term the user is entering, and use that list to populate your autocomplete box.
I used AspTokenInput Which is used as AutoComplete TextBox to create Tags .
I use this Link To know How to Use it.
It's Works Fine For Me and give Result As I want.
Now I want to Make This Control Enabled or Disabled On a Button Click according To Condition.
I Use this on Button Click
AspTokenInput.Enabled = "False"
But it's not Working...
Your problem is that the jQuery Tokeninput field cannot be disabled serverside.
See (http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/) for documentation on this library if you want to try and finagle the js on and off. At a glance, I don't see an enable/disable flag or method. You may need to dig into the ASPTokenInput library to see how it pulls its data source, and then enable/disable the plugin with:
$("#my-text-input").tokenInput("clear"); //disable
$("#my-text-input").tokenInput("/url/to/ASPTokenInput/Datasource/");//reenable
The problem with this approach is that it basically goes around the ASPTokenInput layer, which kind of defeats the point.
My secondary approach was to try a hack, but hiding the dropdown isn't the greatest solution (or even easy in this case), nor is having the check box swap the autocomplete input for another. Swapping text boxes is probably the simplest solution.
i am using the jquery-ui autocomplete feature with multiple values for tags,
The thing is that it doesn't provide the feature to handle the hidden values and display current values as buttons (with the delete button and more usability via keyboard),
I am looking for some plugin just like this one but that works with jquery and no need of mootols or prototype
Do you know if there is any?
If not i am thinking of implement it mysel, the hidden input and displaying a list with all the options i need, but some JQuery alternative to the plugin on the link will just do it for me
Well i found this one and this one and few more (not so similar to the mentioned in question) all in here (weird couldn't find them in google separately)