Search HTML5 Datalist by Value and inner text (or some other property) - html

Question

I am attempting to find a way so that when a user enters text into the data list, they can come across the same entry by course number (E.G. "CS 101") or course name (E.G. "Intro to Computer Science).
Currently, what I have is only searchable by the value field:
<datalist id="tagList">
<option value=""></option>
<option value="CSCI 4950">Senior Software Project</option>
<option value="CSCI 5117">Developing the Interactive Web</option>
<option value="CSCI 5421">Advanced Algorithms</option>
<option value="CSCI 5980">Design Methods for Comp. Sci.</option>
</datalist>
The solution needs to work in the Android Webkit web browser (Phonegap) -- Chrome seems to handle Datalists the same as Android's native browser so if it works in Chrome I should be ok.
It needs to display both the course name and course number to the user
This needs to be generalizable and not hard-coded as I am using AngularJS to actually populate the full list of courses.
What I've tried
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22827978/2831961 -- For some reason, this didn't work.
I've also tried a similar strategy, but with the data-value attribute. That didn't work either. Unless I am responsible for some behind the scenes Javascript work that I am unaware of.

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/rh48cgrj/3/
Here's a fiddle. I put the option values/text into key:value pairs in a javascript object. NOTE: the key is an index number and the value is the option value attribute AND the text. This makes it easier to search them for our text.
var i = 0;
var selectItems = {}
$('#tagList option').each(function() {
var listvalue = $(this).val();
var listtext = $(this).text();
selectItems[i] = listvalue + " " + listtext + ",";
i++;
});
Then I split them into rows that included both value and text.
count = i;
for(i=0; i < count;i++) {
var blockoftext = blockoftext + " " + selectItems[i].toLowerCase() + ",";
}
I then setup a search function that would search those rows to see if any returned a match, and if they did the result was outputted to a div below the search box.
var texttosplit = blockoftext.split(",");
var searchresults;
for(i=0; i < texttosplit.length; i++) {
(texttosplit[i].indexOf(searchvalue.toLowerCase()) != -1) ?
(searchresults = texttosplit[i] + "<br>") : false;
$("#searched").html(searchresults);
}
There's an example for all of the above in the fiddle.
EDIT: The below is the commented code for the loop to check if search text is in the datalist per op request.
for (i = 0; i < texttosplit.length; i++) {
//The above loops through our array of class values and titles
(texttosplit[i].indexOf(searchvalue.toLowerCase()) != -1) ?
// The above determines if our search text is in class title using a ternary operator
// our array of class values and titles is lowercase so we make
//sure our search text is lowercase as well
// if we find a match between the search text and the class title/values perform the following:
(searchresults = texttosplit[i].replace(/\b[a-z]/g, function(letter) {
return letter.toUpperCase();
})
// The above replaces the first char of every word with an uppercase char
.replace("Csci", "CSCI") + "<br>",
// The above finds Csci and changes it to CSCI since all THOSE letters should be uppercase
prevtext = $("#searched").html(),
//get current text of element with id "searched" and place it in prevtext
$("#searched").html(prevtext + searchresults))
//append "searched" by adding it's current text with the new searchresults
:
//if search text is not in the class title return false
false;
}