Datalist with jQuery as Email Helper
Neat way of using datalist with jquery to return email postfixes upon keyup.
HTML
<p>Shows a list of suggestions after you hit the @ symbol.</p>
<label for="txtemail">Email</label>
<input id="txtemail" name="txtemail" type="email" placeholder="[email protected]">
JavaScript
var EmailDomainSuggester = {
domains: ["yahoo.com", "gmail.com", "google.com", "hotmail.com", "me.com", "aol.com", "mac.com", "live.com", "comcast.com", "googlemail.com", "msn.com", "hotmail.co.uk", "yahoo.co.uk", "facebook.com", "verizon.net", "att.net", "gmz.com", "mail.com"],
bindTo: $('#txtemail'),
init: function() {
this.addElements();
this.bindEvents();
},
addElements: function() {
// Create empty datalist
this.datalist = $("<datalist />", {
id: 'email-options'
}).insertAfter(this.bindTo);
// Corelate to input
this.bindTo.attr("list", "email-options");
},
bindEvents: function() {
this.bindTo.on("keyup", this.testValue);
},
testValue: function(event) {
var el = $(this),
value = el.val();
// email has @
// remove != -1 to open earlier
if (value.indexOf("@") != -1) {
value = value.split("@")[0];
EmailDomainSuggester.addDatalist(value);
} else {
// empty list
EmailDomainSuggester.datalist.empty();
}
},
addDatalist: function(value) {
var i, newOptionsString = "";
for (i = 0; i < this.domains.length; i++) {
newOptionsString +=
"<option value='" +
value +
"@" +
this.domains[i] +
"'>";
}
// add new ones
this.datalist.html(newOptionsString);
}
}
EmailDomainSuggester.init();