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0 pointskgwxd3y ago0 comments

None of them are standard. It should be baked into the cake. It's been a puzzler to me since I started programming over 20 years ago. Every third-party library existed basically just to provide a usable grid because most everything else was good enough. Combo boxes and date pickers too but those were less of a pain to implement.

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jamessb3y ago

The eventual aim of Open-UI is to establish a set of standard UI components like this.

> The purpose of Open UI to the web platform is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI controls, such as <select> dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.

> Today, component frameworks and design systems reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls

https://open-ui.org/

zerocrates3y ago

There's various bits and pieces around the margins of grid/table/sorting that make it so it doesn't surprise me that it's not natively provided.

But the lack of a combobox in HTML, I don't get at all. datalist kind of sort of does it but not quite, plus it's inconsistently implemented as to what it actually shows.

tiborsaas3y ago

> None of them are standard.

If there were a standard, you'd probably still complain that it doesn't match your use-case.

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