I thought I’d take a stab at creating a generic autocomplete Blazor component. While researching I came across the HTML Datalist tag to add a list of options to an input element. The combination provided a lot of the functionality I was looking for. Specifically the dropdown filtered by the text in the input. I added some additional code to make the component generic and some validation to ensure what the user enters is on the list. If it isn't, …
Month: January 2023
Free hosting of static websites in Microsoft Azure! So hosting a Blazor client side application as a static website on Azure is free. Free is alway interesting so I thought I’d give it a try. Here’s what happened. I created a Webassembly or Client Side version of the Blazor Component Authority Demonstration application and discovered ProtectedLocalStorage works in a Blazor Server Side application but does not work in a Blazor Client Side application. The InputHistoryBCA component uses ProtectedLocalStorage so I …