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in thread Auto completing a form from and to a mysql database

"You'd need to use something like jQuery and javascript"

Probably not. For personal projects I ditched it's while back

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Re^3: Auto completing a form from and to a mysql database
by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 15, 2020 at 18:00 UTC

    Searching for "autocomplete" on that page returns no results though.

    You certainly could roll your own autocomplete without it, and there are other (JS) frameworks which probably provide a similar widget but . . . bleh.

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      That's quite the turn around from saying jQuery was "needed" :P That page is about getting rid of jQuery as a dependency, not replacing every plugin upon which jQuery is required. While there are various options for drop in jQueryless autocomplete/typeahead HTML5 has datalist which negates a lot of the use cases anyway.