DropDown with Search using jQuery
Search is a useful feature for an HTML drop-down list. Especially it will increase user convenience to select items from the drop-down having a long list. In this tutorial, we are going to list country dropdown with a search option. In a previous tutorial.
In this tutorial, we are having a list of items in a Javascript array. We are using the jQuery select2 library to supply these list and to display the dropdown with a search.
jQuery Dropdown with Search
This code contains an HTML select element referred by its id. With this id reference, it invokes the select2 function to show this dropdown list with a search box.
While invoking this function we are passing an array of a country list to the target dropdown element.
We can also pass remote data to the dropdown from the database or any other data source dynamically. There are many options to provide drop-down list search with added features.
For example, we can control the minimum number of input characters we have to type for start searching.
Conclusion
Thus we have learned Jquery dropdown with search. This article contains a short example of DropDown with Search using jQuery.
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