What is a Search box (Search bar)?

About

A searchbox or search bar is a combobox where the user enters a search term that should be searched in a collection of documents.

The search may be:

• local in a list of rows (the document being a row)
• remote against a database such as a search engine.

Example

HTML Basic

A search box in HTML is done with a input/search

<label for="searchId">Search: </label> 
<input id="searchId"  name="searchName" type="search"  placeholder="search term" />

Search box with Autocompletion

How to create an Autocompletion functionality with CSS , Javascript and HTML ?

Usage

• retrieving documents similar to the search term
• filtering a list of documents

Feature

Search box may also have the following features:

• autocompletion feature that will show a list of possible search term
• debounce: when the user enters the search term, the search box will not search for every keystroke.

Library

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