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Type any font name or choose a suggestion.
Ready — try the example.
States and behavior
Free text, filtered suggestions, active suggestion distinct from committed value, empty results, closed popup.
Keyboard
Down/Up opens and moves suggestions; Enter accepts; Escape dismisses without replacing text; Tab leaves. Home/End edit text.
Scope and adaptation
A modern ARIA adaptation. DOM focus stays in the field while aria-activedescendant names the current option. Native edit keys are not captured.
Sources
Microsoft preliminary guide (1995), chapters 7–8 · Modern browser accessibility pattern
Original implementation; system colors are represented by CSS variables. The default 13 px system-font stack is a readable browser adaptation. The 1995 source is preliminary, not a final product specification. Test the target browser and native host before shipping.