Capture click event for Datalist Option in React

Question

Assume to have this Datalist element in a React component:

const MyComp = () => {
  return (<>
    <input list="list-name">
    <datalist id="list-name">
      <option key="1" value="Option 1" />
      <option key="2" value="Option 2" />
      <option key="3" value="Option 3" />
      <option key="4" value="Option 4" />
      <option key="5" value="Option 5" />
    </datalist>
  </>)
}

onClick or onSelect events on the options or on the datalist are not triggered. How do i intercept the option selection event?

strongmmc · Accepted Answer · 2024-05-20 13:46:41Z

0

as displayed in the following stackblitz snippet:

https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-xcxa9q?file=src%2FApp.tsx

the selection can be intercepted via the onChange / onKeyUp / onKeyDown events.

Where usually the 'key' value returns the value of the pressed key, when clicking on the option we see Unidentified as the .key property value

edited May 20, 2024 at 13:46

answered May 20, 2024 at 13:40

strongmmc

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