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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.
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.
Filter type
Filter data based on starts with, ends with, and contains predicates.
Custom filtering
You can customize the built-in filter query or use your own custom filter libraries to populate data.
Diacritic-sensitive search
The Angular AutoComplete Dropdown component supports diacritic-sensitive searching. This behavior can be turned on or off.
Limit suggestion items
Limit the number of suggestions to be displayed in the filtered data list.
Ignore filter text casing
You can filter data with or without case sensitivity.
Minimum filter characters
Set the filter length to begin filtering and populating the data.
Highlight matched text
You can configure different visual appearances for the matching text of each suggestion.
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.
Grouping
The AutoComplete component allows users to see the listed items grouped in categories with individual headers.
UI customization
Customize the appearance of the AutoComplete suggestion list using templates.
Item template
Define a custom appearance for each suggestion item by using item templates.
Header template
Design a header for the suggestion list using the header template.
Footer template
Design a custom footer for the suggestion list using the footer template.
Icons
Add icons to each suggestion item, like countries with flag icons.
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
The width and height of the suggestion list is adjustable.
Hide or avoid suggestion list
Hide the default suggestion list and bind the search result onto some other component, such as a data grid.
Floating label
Developers can control whether the placeholder should float or not.
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'];
}Other supported frameworks
AutoComplete is also available in Blazor, React, Vue, and JavaScript frameworks. Check out the different AutoComplete platforms from the links below,
Not sure how to create your first Angular AutoComplete? Our tutorial videos and documentation can help.
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Why should you choose Syncfusion Angular AutoComplete?
The Syncfusion Angular AutoComplete with rich UI offers the below features:
- High-performance loading and searching for autocomplete suggestions in huge volumes of data.
- Easy integration with other controls such as the DataGrid for modern web and mobile applications.
Built-in support for autofill (auto-suggest), hierarchical data binding, highlighted search, and custom search (fuzzy search).
- Supports standard Syncfusion themes which include Bootstrap v5 and Tailwind CSS.
- Display floating labels, templated suggestion list and customizable popup dimension.
Highly customizable interface with web accessibility features.
- One of the best Angular AutoComplete component in the market that offers a feature-rich UI to interact with the software.
Simple configuration and API.
- Supports all modern browsers.
- Mobile-touch friendly and responsive.
Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with Angular AutoComplete
Where can I find the Syncfusion Angular AutoComplete demo?
You can find our Angular AutoComplete demo here.
Can I download and utilize the Syncfusion Angular AutoComplete for free?
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
How do I get started with Syncfusion Angular AutoComplete?
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
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