<datalist> does not work?

[FezVrasta]

If I insert inside Brackets (using the dev console) a datalist element:

<input list="browsers" />
<datalist id="browsers">
  <option value="Chrome">
  <option value="Firefox">
  <option value="Internet Explorer">
  <option value="Opera">
  <option value="Safari">
</datalist>

The datalist does not work but is shown as a simple input text.. Why?

[peterflynn]

@FezVrasta brackets-shell is currently based on Chromium 29. Does Chromium 29 support <datalist>? Caniuse implies it's only supported in 34+.

We'd like to update to a newer Chromium (probably either 33 of 35), but we've run into stability problems with both of those CEF versions, so we've been unable to so far.

[le717]

To answer your question, @peterflynn, both MDN and Caniuse report <datalist> support starting in Chrome 20.

http://caniuse.com/datalist

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist#Browser_compatibility

[peterflynn]

Huh, I wonder what the difference is between http://caniuse.com/#feat=datalist and http://caniuse.com/datalist...

Anyway, it seems the problem is that CEF (Chromium embedded) doesn't support it: https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/issues/detail?id=906. Marking 'tracking' since there's nothing we can do until that issue is fixed.

Once PR #7227 lands, you'll be able to use QuickSearchField as a substitute, though (with the bonus that it looks a lot nicer!)

[le717]

@peterflynn The difference is I clicked the "Show all tables" link near the top of http://caniuse.com/#feat=datalist, which expanded the support tables to show all logged versions and changed the URL to http://caniuse.com/datalist. 😉

[peterflynn]

Ohh... you mean "Show all versions"? I missed that little link... ("Show all tables" just takes you back to http://caniuse.com/ afaict).

[le717]

Oh yea, duh, show all versions. I was on mobile when I sent that message, and I just edited the URL to access the complete version list. I didn't realize Show all tables didn't do that. The new version of Caniuse should help clear things up.

OK, I've derailed this whole issue now. :oops:

[peterflynn]

No worries -- thanks for showing me how to actually use that site correctly :-)

[cfjedimaster]

@peterflynn - will people be able to use QuickSearchField in ad hoc extensions? In random fields I mean?

[peterflynn]

That's the plan, yep