Javascript Autocomplete Dropdown - Javascript Tutorial For Beginners

In a high performing user friendly website, we use the autocomplete feature to give the user the ability to search on a list fast, we often tend to use some libraries but in this video we will see how easy it is to build your own autocomplete input box from scratch using HTML, CSS and Javascript, so stay tuned right till the end.

Autocomplete can be a useful feature in websites where the users have a form to fill and there is a dropdown with a huge list to select from.

Scrolling on the list and finding the correct selection can be a painful task, so for user's ease, we should add an autocomplete form or an autocomplete dropdown where the user can autocomplete on the input text box and the filtered results are shown in the dropdown below.

That makes a good user experience too.

We will fetch data using the Fetch API in javascript and will map the results into a variable and we will use this data to populate the list.

Then will will introduce the Autocomplete search functionality such that when user types into the input text box, the user is shown a filtered data of result or an autocompleted data.

#Autocomplete #Javascript #HTML

[wg]

This what I've been searching for weeks! Thank you so much!

[manaraga]

I tried so many times to make this menu but only this video helped

[cocoyana]

Appreciate your concise and logical explanation!

[shubhamdhiman]

Thankyou for this tutorial. It's really helpful in my project.

[NicoHeinrich]

Box-sizing: Border-box;
Makes life easier! ;)

[ramnarasimhan]

The video is really well, Sameer. Keep up the good work, and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[jaimeandrescarcamosepulved]

It was very helpful. Thank you for your content!

[mohammedabdulaziz]

Too clean code sir, awesome 👍 thank you so much

[eberebenny]

this is a great video, but the countries displaying cannot be selected, can you please fix this? Thanks

[salmanrazakmemon]

hay Sameer it worked like a charm... my array have multiple value such as image, title, quantity, price, etc... how is it possible searching through specific title.
function filterData(data, searchText) {return data.title.filter((x) =>
here it gives me an error of lower case.

[christinakarlhoff]

Hello! How would i alter the code to search for a number? I have a json array of specific numbers and i want to use autocomplete to match the number input by the user. I would appreciate your assistance. Thanks!

[matteorodriguez]

Hello man, Thanks for your videos.... i have a question; how i can to use fetch with a data from a table of SQL Server?

[mirror-images]

Hello! Thank you for the upload, this video is very helpful. I am having some issues with the autocomplete portion. Upon user input, the dropdown menu does not seem to show all the possible results. For example, when I type in "new, " I see "New Zealand" and "Papua New Guinea" but not "New Caledonia" in the dropdown. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this error.