chosen vs JavaScript-autoComplete

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chosen		JavaScript-autoComplete
	Project
6	Mentions	1
21,909	Stars	748
-0.1%	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
HTML	Language	HTML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

chosen

Posts with mentions or reviews of chosen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

Custom <select> ?
2 projects | /r/Frontend | 5 Jul 2023
How to load the data from external json file to the composite's textfield element?
3 projects | /r/drupal | 20 Jun 2022

Jumping onto this you can then use a library like chosen, select2, selectize.js or others to get type ahead like behaviour to populate the data as a user types.
Customize select with vanilla JavaScript
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022

If this approach does not suit you, then you need to make your own. There are ready-made solutions: — Select2 in jQuery; — Chosen in jQuery; — Choices in JavaScript without deps.
How can I reset a form with jQuery chosen plugin?
1 project | /r/codehunter | 16 Apr 2022

I have a bunch of select elements in a form with which I am using the Jquery Chosen plugin. How can I reset the form? The following does not work:
disable jquery-chosen dropdown
1 project | /r/codehunter | 12 Apr 2022

I have a select div that I'm using the chosen jquery plugin to style and add features to (most notably, search). The div looks something like this,
Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2021

Or maybe browser vendors can invest in high quality, easy to style, feature rich built in components, so we don't have to reimplement the wheel.
Its 2022 almost, and we still can't get a html select that has 20% of the features that chosen (https://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) had 8 years ago.

JavaScript-autoComplete

Posts with mentions or reviews of JavaScript-autoComplete. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-02.

Accepting your CSS/JS library in my project
9 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2021

auto-complete: An extremely lightweight and powerful vanilla JavaScript completion suggester. repo

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chosen and JavaScript-autoComplete you can also consider the following projects:

select2 - Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.

Choices.js - A vanilla JS customisable select box/text input plugin ⚡️

selectize.js - Selectize is the hybrid of a textbox and <select> box. It's jQuery based, and it has autocomplete and native-feeling keyboard navigation; useful for tagging, contact lists, etc.

typeahead.js - typeahead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library

Amazon Autocomplete JS Plugin - 🚀 Unlock the full power of the Amazon autocompletion engine right into your search input. JavaScript Plugin.

tagify - 🔖 lightweight, efficient Tags input component in Vanilla JS / React / Angular / Vue

jquery multi-select - A user-friendlier drop-in replacement for the standard select with multiple attribute activated.