Is there a way to make autocomplete options only accept a listed option - not "custom" inputs?

[forest orchid]

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[lime galleon]

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[sterile lance]

that is unfortunately not how autocomplete works because they only serve as suggestions. to do that, you would need to compare the inputted value on your end.

[ornate eagle]

you will need to do input validation yourself. For example for @limpid viper I first try to use the user input exactly, and if it yields no results I do a fuzzy search with that input, grab the first 20 results, and show a string select menu to the user. You can test this by using /pokemon and typing something then hitting enter before the autocomplete populates entries

[forest orchid]

I see, I was hoping there was an alternative to validating the input (which is what I've been doing - in my case each option's value is an object id related to a mongoDB document, so now I just make it check if the value is a valid ObjectId string)

Thank you both