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Datalist and select in HTML

26-02-2021 03:25AM

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prasanthpr

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Hello all,

Wanted to understand if the <datalist> tag and <select> tag in HTML is same?

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#2 26-02-2021 04:05AM

fritzelly

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Select is a required choice (unless specified defaults to the first value in the list), datalist is an optional choice (nothing is specified by default)

But check https://caniuse.com/datalist for compatibility

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