Search Block: Option to have live suggested results or word auto-completion

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Search Block: Option to have live suggested results or word auto-completion #62421

Open bhubbard opened 3 months ago

bhubbard commented 3 months ago

What problem does this address?

It is a common pattern to have a search box that has a dropdown containing suggested words, or a small sample actual results as you type in the box.

What is your proposed solution?

[ ] Offer a setting to provide a list of suggested auto-complete words as a list.
[ ] Offer a setting to enable a dropdown of live results, with a field to set the number of return results in the dropdown (3, 5, 10, etc).

cbirdsong commented 3 months ago

This can be done without client-side Javascript by using <datalist>. In the past I've attached one to a search box and populated it with the site's tags and categories.