p-dropdown does not let you type single letter to select options that begin with that letter

[emorin]

Describe the bug

In version 15.x, you could expand a dropdown and type a single character and the dropdown would cycle through the options that begin with that letter.

For example,
Rome
Rodeo

If you type r, it should select Rome. Then if you type r again it should jump to the next element which would be Rodeo.

It stopped working like that in version 16.x and now in 17.x. This is common for dropdowns to work like this. You should be able to keep typing the letter and the dropdown will cycle through the options that start with that letter.

Environment

N/A

Reproducer

No response

Angular version

17.3.1

PrimeNG version

17.13.0

Build / Runtime

Angular CLI App

Language

TypeScript

Node version (for AoT issues node --version)

n/a

Browser(s)

Chrome and Edge

Steps to reproduce the behavior

No response

Expected behavior

Type a single character and have the dropdown cycle through the options that begin with that letter.

[emorin]

Anything for this? Our users really miss this feature.

[mertsincan]

Hi,

So sorry for the delayed response! Improvements have been made to many components recently, both in terms of performance and enhancement. Therefore, this improvement may have been developed in another issue ticket without realizing it. You can check this in the documentation. If there is no improvement on this, can you open a new issue so we can include it in our roadmap?

Thanks a lot for your understanding!
Best Regards,

[av-code-crafter]

@mertsincan This issue is still not resolved in version 17.18.15. Typing the first character does not cycle through all matching options which starts with that character. It just stays on the first item. This was a really good feature in older version which users are used to use a lot. Is there any chance that this feature is going to be back?