Displaying Autocomplete Suggestions
Explore how to implement an autocomplete search component by adding input event listeners that fetch and display suggestions dynamically. Understand handling server responses and extracting text to render meaningful results, improving your frontend JavaScript skills.
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Input event listener
We’re working with just a basic input bar and a ul inside a div to show the list of results.
Since results show up every time the input changes, we’ll add an event listener on the input element. Whenever it changes, whether that’s a new character, a backspace or a copy-paste, this event listener should read the new value and get new results for us.
Let’s add an event listener to the input and test that it works by just having it echo the results. Usually, I’d have the output be the console (part of the browser devtools), but for demonstration purposes, writing HTML works ...