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Hands On: Making Use of More Controls

Explore how to integrate HTML5 data lists with text input fields to provide dynamic, filtered suggestions. This lesson guides you through adding and binding data lists in a registration form, enhancing user interactions and input validation in web forms.

There are several controls you can use to provide a rich user experience. In this section, you will learn a few of them.

Using data lists

HTML5 defines a new tag, <datalist>, that can be used to provide input suggestions to ordinary text boxes. On its own, a data list is invisible, but you can bind it to text controls. The next exercise demonstrates how to do this.

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