HTMLInputElement: list property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2019.

The list read-only property of the HTMLInputElement interface returns the HTMLDataListElement pointed to by the list attribute of the element, or null if the list attribute is not defined or the list attribute's value is not associated with any in the same tree.

Note: This is a read-only property. To associate a with an element, set the value of the list attribute with setAttribute().

Value

Example

Given the following HTML:

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You can retrieve the element associated with the :

js
const inputElement = document.querySelector("#planet");
console.log(inputElement.list); // returns the superhero HTMLDatalistElement

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-input-list-dev

Browser compatibility

See also