[Select] Native built-in search in select boxes

[kobelobster]

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Hi, for a feature we're developing right now we want to use select boxes that are searchable. I found this demo section: https://material-ui.com/demos/autocomplete/ where react-select KINDA does what we want, however the result design is different from what we want. We want the same style as the selectboxes from this repo AND we want to search in the opened select box, NOT where the label/selected value is.

Now I have two questions:

1. Are there any plans to integrate that into this library and if not....
2. Would a PR for this be accepted or is there a reason this is not implemented right now?

I ask because I forked this project, read the CONTRIBUTING.md and the first sentence was to check with the maintainers first, if a PR would be okay for a specific feature.

[mbrookes]

If by search you mean the way the native element supports it - focussing the first entry whose beginning that the entered characters match, then that seems like a sensible feature to support.

I don't believe it has been intentionally omitted.

@oliviertassinari any objections, or otherwise, any thoughts on implementation approach?

[oliviertassinari]

It's a duplicate of #8191

[kobelobster]

There's a misunderstanding here.

I was not talking about simply entering letters and the search component automatically highlights a value, but instead that you can FILTER the list of the select

For example: Take this screenshot of an opened select box. You have a text field as "first entry" and if you enter something along the lines S235 only the second result would be displayed in the list, not ALL values.

@oliviertassinari or @mbrookes Would it be possible to reopen this?

[oliviertassinari]

@tzfrs Thanks for the clarification. It's something you should be able to build with any of the 3 different autocomplete libraries.

[kobelobster]

I saw them, but they are doing it a bit different from the result I would expect. Anyway, I'm going to try it out if I can somehow get the result I want. I'll report back!