Angular AutoComplete | Auto Suggest TextBox | Syncfusion

Overview

The Angular Autocomplete is a textbox or search box component that provides a list of suggestions to select from as the user types. It has several out-of-the-box features such as data binding, filtering, grouping, autocomplete search, UI customization, accessibility, and more.


Angular AutoComplete with data binding

Data binding

You can bind data from different types of data sources, such as an array of primitive data, JSON data collections, or remote data sources using adaptors such as OData, OData V4, URL, JSON, and Web API. Data binding uses our data manager to manage data, and also has customization options for data requests and processing.


Filtering

The built-in filtering support includes a rich set of filtering options that is available to meet all your application needs.

Angular AutoComplete with Filter type

Filter type

Filter data based on starts with, ends with, and contains predicates.

Angular AutoComplete with Custom filtering

Custom filtering

You can customize the built-in filter query or use your own custom filter libraries to populate data.

Angular AutoComplete with Diacritic-sensitive search

The Angular AutoComplete Dropdown component supports diacritic-sensitive searching. This behavior can be turned on or off.

Angular AutoComplete Dropdown with Limit suggestion items

Limit suggestion items

Limit the number of suggestions to be displayed in the filtered data list.

Angular AutoComplete with Ignore filter text casing

Ignore filter text casing

You can filter data with or without case sensitivity.

Angular AutoComplete with Minimum filter characters length

Minimum filter characters

Set the filter length to begin filtering and populating the data.


Angular AutoComplete with Highlight matched text


Angular AutoComplete with Autofill Search

The Angular AutoComplete component has an autofill search option that completes the word that the user types based on the suggestion text, allowing the user to search for items easily.


Angular AutoComplete with Grouping


UI customization

Customize the appearance of the AutoComplete suggestion list using templates.

Angular AutoComplete with Item template

Item template

Define a custom appearance for each suggestion item by using item templates.

Angular AutoComplete with Header template in suggestion list

Design a header for the suggestion list using the header template.

Angular AutoComplete with Footer template in suggestion list

Design a custom footer for the suggestion list using the footer template.

Angular AutoComplete with Icons in suggestion list

Icons

Add icons to each suggestion item, like countries with flag icons.

Angular AutoComplete with Empty record template in suggestion list

Empty record

Provide a custom message with a custom appearance when there are no search suggestions to display.


Suggestion list

Generate a suggestion list in the dropdown of the angular material autocomplete for users as they type in the input textbox.

Dimension customization in Angular AutoComplete input textbox

Dimension customization

The width and height of the suggestion list is adjustable.

Angular AutoComplete Dropdown with Hide or avoid suggestion list

Hide or avoid suggestion list

Hide the default suggestion list and bind the search result onto some other component, such as a data grid.


Angular AutoComplete input with Floating label


Forms support

Seamlessly supports HTML5 forms, Angular template-driven forms, and Angular reactive forms.

Mobile-friendly, responsive UI

Provides a responsive mode that displays an adaptive redesigned UI for mobile devices that recognizes touch gestures.


Web accessibility

  • Fully supports WAI-ARIA accessibility standards that make the AutoComplete component accessible to screen readers and assistive devices.
  • Follows WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing keyboard interaction.
  • Designs the UI visual elements such as foreground color, background color, line spacing, text, and images based on the WCAG 2.0 standard.
  • Supports right-to-left (RTL) text direction for users working with RTL languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.

Developer-friendly APIs

Developers can customize all UI elements and control their behaviors according to the end user’s requirements using the rich set of client-side APIs.


Angular AutoComplete Code Example

Easily get started with the Angular AutoComplete using a few simple lines of HTML and TS code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Angular AutoComplete Example that shows you how to render and configure a AutoComplete in Angular.

<div class="control-section">
  <ejs-autocomplete id='atcelement'></ejs-autocomplete>
</div>
import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    // specifies the template string for the AutoComplete component
    template: `<ejs-autocomplete id='atcelement' [dataSource]='sportsData'></ejs-autocomplete>`
})
export class AppComponent {
    constructor() {
    }
    // defined the array of data
    public sportsData: string[] = ['Badminton', 'Basketball', 'Cricket', 'Football', 'Golf', 'Gymnastics', 'Hockey', 'Rugby', 'Snooker', 'Tennis'];
}




Transform your applications today by downloading our free evaluation version

Syncfusion Angular Resources