Datalist Tag in Forms

Hello to All,
I recently watched a really good and informative video by David Powers about Datalist for use in forms with a choice entry from a list to replace the <Select> tag.
In the <select> option a user restricted to only one or more given options, but in the case of using a <datalist> for a text entry the user can erase and enter any other value in the field which under circumstances would raise further validation or even security issues. An example:
<input type="text" placeholder="Click and choose airport" name="airport" id="airport" list="airport_list">
                <datalist id="airport_list">
                  <option value="Frankfurt">Frankfurt (for Germany & Europe)
                  <option value="New York">New York-JFK or Newark-EWR (for northern USA & Canada)
                  <option value="Phoenix">Phoenix (for southern USA)
                  <option value="Melbourne">Melbourne ( for Australia & New Zealand)
                  <option value="Sydney">Sydney ( for Australia & New Zealand)
                  <option value="Tokyo (HND)">Tokyo ( for Japan)
                </datalist>
The user could put in Los Angeles which is not going to be used as an international departure airport.
Is there way out of the problem?
Thanks for any ideas.

Is this just for a test site, or is it a critical element in a real booking site?
If the latter is true, don't use <datalist> there are still a fair number of viewers where the datalist functionality won't work at all.
Anything under IE10 and Safari won't see anything.
You're much better off using an actual <select> if you want it to work cross-browser.

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