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new alias for the select tag in html #2602
Description
Feature request
Add an alias for the select tag and the option tag in the html documentation to dropdown
Summary
I was looking for a way to make a dropdown list but when i searched for dropdown i couldnt find it, it was not available in html, css or the js docs and so i had to ask AI how to do that and then it told me that you need the select tag and the option tag to make that list
The point of me using the docs, which i use primarily, is so that i can work without any distractions, if i need to leave the site and require using the internet anyway to search for something, when i dont know what its called, then the use for the offline docs deteriorates
Having an alias set will help greatly in searchability for items that i dont know the proper names of
Im sure there are many cases, keywords and documentations where this could be greatly useful, but for now this is the only one i have found
Examples
When i search for dropdown, an alias should be set that shows the select tag and the option tag section in the html documentation
Activity
simon04 commentedon Oct 19, 2025
Hm, the idea of devdocs is to index docs provided by upstream projects. MDN itself does not have any formal link from "dropdown" to "select", only its full-text search finds the latter: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=dropdown. Devdocs does not feature full-text search. I don't see an elegant and maintainable way to add aliases for possible search keywords of the HTML docs. Maybe "dropdown" could be added to the HTML element list in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements. What do you think?
CyberReaper00 commentedon Oct 21, 2025
I dont really know what you're trying to say here,
If you're saying that we should
dropdownthen, i have no idea how that would even be possibledropdownto that page so that it automatically appears for users in devdocs, if mdn allows for edits to their page by the community, then i guess anything would be better than nothing and that sounds pretty goodPlease let me know how far i was from what you actually wanted to say