Type ahead to jump to items in the dropdown menu

[rallyb13]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We want to use auro-select for the list of countries, a very long list that takes a long time to scroll through with no option to skip/drop/pop to a point below.

Describe the solution you'd like

Typing a letter should pop to the first entry with that letter.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We considered using the auro-combobox in place of the select, but that had some other minor problems (no list view without typing, typing an option in that matched a selectable option was not accepted, and behavior is strange for our use case with auto-fill).
We are currently using the native element, which has typeahead support.

[jason-capsule42]

We will need to discuss this and break it up into the separate feature requests. @braven112 let's get this one refined.

combobox:

• support showing the list before typing
• resolve support for typing valid options to make a selection without clicking on a menuoption
• autocomplete: like aria autocomplete, navigating the menu automatically makes selection

select:

• support using keyboard to jump to spots in the menu (e.g. a long list of airports - hitting s jumps to the first airport that starts with the letter s)
• autocomplete: like aria autocomplete, navigating the menu automatically makes selection

[braven112]

Sounds good, we'll go over this one tomorrow. @rallyb13 who is the product designer on your team?

[MattSidor]

@rallyb13 is on a new team as of today, so I can take over as representative for the Lounge team on this feature request. Our designer is Amanda Stockbridge.

[blackfalcon]

I feel like these two issues are similar in nature

• Keyboard interaction: have up and down arrows change selection when dropdown is collapsed #73