Searchable Dropdown Input is a Bubble input element for building fast, polished single-select searchable dropdowns with a floating result panel that does not push page layout. It works with Bubble Thing lists and typed API-object lists passed into Records, making it useful for native app data and external search results.
The plugin supports local fuzzy search, keyboard navigation, open-on-focus behavior, optional thumbnails, subtitles, empty and no-results states, optional default selection via initial_value, externally controlled query seeding via initial_query, and CTA actions for custom workflows. When a user or workflow selects an item, the input value is replaced with the selected label so the control behaves like a committed single-select input. It exposes selection, ID and label, query, input value, and status states plus events and actions for reacting to typing, selections, clears, dropdown open and close events, and programmatic control.

To drive an external API from the current query, mirror the element's query or input_value into a page or group custom state and bind the API call to that state. Bubble will flag direct self-references inside the same element's Records expression as circular.