yeah the standard country dropdown is basically a scrollathon from hell and nobody wants to play "find the united kingdom" when they're just trying to buy some socks real quick

I like the flags and extra search metadata however it does look quite big. My intial reaction was to scroll, not to press a button to find a country. Still better than the current one though. I'd love to see also a better country phone number selection which in a lot of cases does not even work as it should

I feel like the best solution is a custom dropdown, instead of a modal, modals rreally take you out of context, when you're editing a form, its a bit jarring to be thrown to a modal, the best country select in my opinion is what you've listed, but also it's in a dropdown.

better yet https://zipcodefirst.com

> A full country list inside a native `<select>` has several structural limitations:

> No filtering. Users cannot narrow the list by typing

But you can use an `<input type="text">` instead and add a `<datalist>`[0] to it with the list of countries and you will be able to filter them by typing. Granted, it still has no full support (namely, firefox), but still that's much better than a `<select>` with no filtering ability whatsoever.

Not sure why this is not more known, though, I've seen it just like a couple of times in the wild. Now, back to job searching...

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Ele...

tl;dr use an autocomplete dropdown