HTML Form: Select-Option vs Datalist-Option

Question

I was wondering what the differences are between Select-Option and Datalist-Option. Is there any situation in which it would be better to use one or the other? An example

Answer 1

Its similar to select, But datalist has additional functionalities like auto suggest. You can even type and see suggestions as and when you type.

User will also be able to write items which is not there in list.