HTMLSelectElement showPicker()

Category: User input
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 121)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Developers have been asking for a way to programmatically open the option picker of a select element. See https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+select+site%3Astackoverflow.com This is currently impossible in almost every browser. Providing showPicker() gives developers a supported way to do this. Following the pattern of input.showPicker().

Motivation

Developers have been asking for a way to programmatically open the option picker of a select element. See https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+select+site%3Astackoverflow.com This is currently impossible in almost every browser. Providing showPicker() gives developers a supported way to do this. Following the pattern of input.showPicker().

Standards & signals

Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#dom-select-showpicker
Firefox: Positive — Implementation in progress
Safari: Support
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1485010

Samples: https://select-show-picker.glitch.me

Explainers: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9754

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