[html5] Large Datalist

[Simon Pieters]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 09:10:07 +0200, Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:

> That certainly eliminates the error and now I see that script in the  
> browser.  I am unable to figure out how to reference a variable in a  
> HTML element.  I tried the following but it doesn't work (I didn't think  
> it would):
>
> <INPUT NAME=place SIZE=48 MAXLENGTH=64 VALUE='xxx' LIST=datalist>.
>
> It kept facilities as a string rather than using the var.
>
> The following attempt to just check the var also failed:
>
> <script>alert (datalist)</script>
>
> That gives an alert dialog with [object Object].
>
> I suspect I will need something like "<script>document.write  
> (datalist)</script in the right place in the datalist html.  But I think  
> I need to get the variable working first.

Fetch the JSON file with XHR and use JSON.parse, then populate a  
<datalist> with the data.

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1509


>
> On 3 May 2012, at 23:29, Tatham Oddie wrote:
>
>> You'll need to put it in a variable to access it later.
>>
>>    var datalist = {
>>        "ID": "facilities",
>>        "OPTION": [
>>            {"LABEL": "St. Johns Hospital, Oxnard", "VALUE": "St.  
>> Johns"},
>>            {"LABEL": "Pleasant Valley, Camarillo", "VALUE": "Pleasant  
>> Valley"},
>>            {"LABEL": "Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks", "VALUE":  
>> "Los Robles"}
>>        ]
>>    };

I wouldn't recommend doing this since it executes it as code, which is a  
potential risk.

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software