Contact Form 7 – Datalist

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Contact Form 7 – Datalist

by sgc2000

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Description

This control works in a similar way to the existing drop-down menu, but rather than a fixed list of options that the user must select from it is presented to the user as a textbox.
Once the user begins typing a list of possible options will be shown, selecting one will fill in the rest of the field with the selected option, if the desired option is not present in the list then the user can type in their own option.

  1. Ensure Contact Form 7 is installed and activated.
  2. Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen or upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/cf7-datalist directory.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  1. User has typed in 'dun' and matches are shown.

    User has typed in 'dun' and matches are shown.

How do I use this?

When editing a Contact Form 7 form you should now be able to add a datalist tag.

Which browsers support this?

According to MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist this is supported by Chrome 20+ (33+ on mobile), Edge, Firefox 4+, IE10+ and Opera 9.5+ but not Safari.

excellent

By panonski on May 9, 2025

Thank you ! I had a quick solution for this, and after looking all of the similar methods, and maybe complicated instalation into CF7 , your plugin works like a charm !

Thank you !

great plugin! working perfectly!

By AngeloLazzari on July 25, 2019

thank you very much for this plugin!

One of a kind

By castironpancake on April 1, 2019

Literally. This plugin deserves more reviews and downloads. I love these when I fill out forms. So glad you made this. I was going to jQuery a datalist input into a cf7 input to get this to work, but you are awesome and thank you.

1.2

  • Tested for WordPress 5.0.

1.1

  • Fixed Contact Form 7 depreciation errors.

1.0

  • Initial release.
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