How To Set Material Design List To Behave Like Getmdl-select Dropdown (respond To Keyboard Arrows And Tab)

The standard material design select list (dropdown) support accessibility. I can get to the dropdown with a TAB (keyboard), navigate the list items with the arrows (keyboard) and b

Solution 1:

Dynamically usage For dynamically usage, you must add getmdlSelect.init(cssSelector) in javascript code, (where cssSelector, for example, is ".getmdl-select" or "#mySelect"), after new item is created or any new element added to existing list.

Pre-selected item To set pre-selected value add data-selected="true" attribute to corresponding li in your list

PLEASE READ from this site : https://github.com/CreativeIT/getmdl-select

Example

after you get data and input value after that add like this

$('ul[for="xxx_field_name"] li[data-val="'+xxx_value+'"]').attr('data-selected',true); 
getmdlSelect.init('.getmdl-select');

it work for me! good luck :)