Improve the user experience on my website by implementing a search feature for US states and Canadian territories. When visitors type in their selection, I want them to be able to click on an icon that will reveal relevant information about that choice.
This example, originally from CodeNepal but customized by me, demonstrates what I'm looking for. Instead of redirecting users to a Google search page, I want a specific box to expand below the searchbox when they make a selection. I understand that the "weblink" line needs to be modified to achieve this functionality, but I'm unsure of how to adjust it to show/hide a div element or something similar.
Note: Rather than linking each selection to a database entry, I plan to manually code each one into separate div elements with anchors.
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="search-input">
<a href="" target="_blank" hidden></a>
<input type="text" placeholder="Type to search..">
<div class="autocom-box"gt;
<!-- data list inserted dynamically using JavaScript -->
</div>
<div class="icon"><i class="fas fa-search"></i></div>
</div>
</div>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css"/>
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700&display=swap');
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
}
body{
background: #644bff;
padding: 0 20px;
}
::selection{
color: #fff;
background: #664AFF;
}
.wrapper{
max-width: 450px;
margin: 150px auto;
}
.wrapper .search-input{
background: #fff;
width: 100%;
border-radius: 5px;
position: relative;
box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.12);
}
.search-input input{
height: 55px;
width: 100%;
outline: none;
border: none;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0 60px 0 20px;
font-size: 18px;
box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
.search-input.active input{
border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
}
.search-input .autocom-box{
padding: 0;
opacity: 0;
pointer-events: none;
max-height: 280px;
overflow-y: auto;
}
.search-input.active .autocom-box{
padding: 10px 8px;
opacity: 1;
pointer-events: auto;
}
.autocom-box li{
list-style: none;
padding: 8px 12px;
display: none;
width: 100%;
cursor: default;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.search-input.active .autocom-box li{
display: block;
}
.autocom-box li:hover{
background: #efefef;
}
.search-input .icon{
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
height: 55px;
width: 55px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 55px;
font-size: 20px;
color: #644bff;
cursor: pointer;
}
let suggestions = [
"Alabama",
"Alaska",
"Arizona",
"Arkansas",
"California",
"Colorado",
"Connecticut",
"District of Columbia",
"Delaware",
"Florida",
"Hawaii",
"Idaho",
"Illinois",
"Indianar",
"Iowa",
"Kansas",
"Kentucky",
"Louisiana",
"Maine",
"Maryland",
"Massachusetts",
"Michigan",
"Minnesota",
"Mississippi",
"Missouri",
"Montana",
];
// getting all required elements
const searchWrapper = document.querySelector(".search-input");
const inputBox = searchWrapper.querySelector("input");
const suggBox = searchWrapper.querySelector(".autocom-box");
const icon = searchWrapper.querySelector(".icon");
let linkTag = searchWrapper.querySelector("a");
let webLink;
// if user press any key and release
inputBox.onkeyup = (e)=>{
let userData = e.target.value; //user enetered data
let emptyArray = [];
if(userData){
icon.onclick = ()=>{
webLink = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${userData}`;
linkTag.setAttribute("href", webLink);
linkTag.click();
}
emptyArray = suggestions.filter((data)=>{
//filtering array value and user characters to lowercase and return only those words which are start with user enetered chars
return data.toLocaleLowerCase().startsWith(userData.toLocaleLowerCase());
});
emptyArray = emptyArray.map((data)=>{
// passing return data inside li tag
return data = `<li>${data}</li>`;
});
searchWrapper.classList.add("active"); //show autocomplete box
showSuggestions(emptyArray);
let allList = suggBox.querySelectorAll("li");
for (let i = 0; i < allList.length; i++) {
//adding onclick attribute in all li tag
allList[i].setAttribute("onclick", "select(this)");
}
}else{
searchWrapper.classList.remove("active"); //hide autocomplete box
}
}
function select(element){
let selectData = element.textContent;
inputBox.value = selectData;
icon.onclick = ()=>{
webLink = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${selectData}`;
linkTag.setAttribute("href", webLink);
linkTag.click();
}
searchWrapper.classList.remove("active");
}
function showSuggestions(list){
let listData;
if(!list.length){
userValue = inputBox.value;
listData = `<li>${userValue}</li>`;
}else{
listData = list.join('');
}
suggBox.innerHTML = listData;
}