Textfield with autocomplete dropdown

I have a text field on my website that needs to work as an autocomplete box. I have included the following code in the "headerbar" section of my page:

Find :<input type="text" class="input2" style="margin-bottom:0px;"  id="customersearchfield">
<div id="customersearchresult" style="display:none; position:absolute; z-index:999; background:#fff; color:black;   ">

CSS:

.input2{
    display:            inline;
    margin-top:         4px;
    padding:            3px;
    border:             0px;
    width:              200px;
}

The layout is not working as intended. The result div is positioned directly beneath the text field vertically, but it is not aligned horizontally. It is just left-aligned with the browser window.

How can I position the top-left corner of the result div directly under the bottom-left corner of the text field so that it appears right below the text field?

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Answer №1

It seems that you are already utilizing absolute positioning and JavaScript to display and populate the customersearchresult.

Have you considered positioning the dropdown simultaneously?

var input = document.getElementById('customersearchfield');
var dropdown = document.getElementById('customersearchresult');

var rectangle = input.getBoundingClientRect();

dropdown.style.left = rectangle.left + "px";
dropdown.style.top = (rectangle.bottom + 2) + "px";

For a demonstration, visit: http://codepen.io/paulroub/pen/Cvoix

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