Drop Down Menu/Text Field in one

Question

I\'m working on building new site, and I need a drop down menu to select the amount of something in my site. But at the same time I need this drop down list to accept text.

Answer 1

The modern solution is an input field of type "search"!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/search https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_datalist.asp

Somewhere in your HTML you define a datalist for later reference:

Then you can define your search input like this:

Voilà. Very nice and easy.