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With select you have <option value="123">Customer Name</option> so the user sees Customer Name but submitting the form gets 123. With datalist you only have <op
by cmg 5y ago
With select you have <option value="123">Customer Name</option> so the user sees Customer Name but submitting the form gets 123. With datalist you only have <option value="Customer Name"/> and the input tied to it gets Customer Name.
- recursive 5y agoYes. If you want to have the id, then why are you using a text input in the first place? This seems to be exactly the use case for a <select>.
- cmg 5y agoFor me, datalist is almost an acceptable compromise for a typical combobox (input + select/dropdown) control. Custom solutions for that require JS and are not accessible or otherwise don't behave as a user would expect a standard input to without lots of extra work.