Feature Request:Autocomplete for Textarea element

[MrD2018]

I was wondering if it would be possible to implement the Autocomplete attribute for Textarea elements? I understand that most of the time you would not really want a significant bit of text to be remembered but it is sometimes useful. Also, I have seen several instances where a Textarea element was used for inputting a short piece of text where an Input element might have been more appropriate, which does use autocomplete. This feature does not appear to work on any of the main browsers.

[Enobarbous]

If I understand correctly what you want, the old Textarea Cache add-on does this. Version 0.9.3.4 works quite well for me on current PM

[MrD2018]

That is an interesting add-on but what I was looking for was a drop down list of suggestions which would appear automatically when typing into a Textarea, the same way as an Input element works.

[Moonchild]

That is an interesting add-on but what I was looking for was a drop down list of suggestions which would appear automatically when typing into a Textarea, the same way as an Input element works.

That's not feasible to implement, because a text area is multi-line, has often large amounts of data, and can't be displayed as a drop-down in any reasonable way. On top, it would seriously bloat the form history database, cause unwanted retention of large amounts of data, and would negatively impact performance in a major way.

[MrD2018]

No problem, thanks for letting me know.