1332294 - The search box for searching within the select dropdown should appear next to the anchor, regardless of flip position

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Bug 1309935 implemented searching within the select dropdown when over 40 elements.

If a select dropdown is opened towards the bottom of the screen, and the popup doesn't have enough room below the <select> element to show the popup we will flip the popup so that it opens above the <select> element. This places the search box far away from the select element that was just opened.

This normally wouldn't be a problem, but as a user types in the search box the list of options will decrease and the popup will shrink in size, thus moving the box that the user is typing in. If the search box was placed right next to the <select>, then as the dropdown resizes the search box would still stay in the same place.

We may also want to fix the position of the search box so that it is always visible and can't be scrolled out of view in the dropdown.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This should probably wait until bug 1337554 is fixed, as that will change where the search is located within the DOM of the popup.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.