i have been tryign for a while to get autocomplete to work on a page of my internal website with no success. i have used it before on other sites but for some reason i can't get it to work here:
i know that the autoComplete_PhoneList.cfm and autoComplete_docsearch.cfm files return valid xml data. below is my code - can anyone help?? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http:// www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital Intranet</title> <link href="./newStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="backend/javascripts/subModal/ submodal.css" type="text/css" /> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="backend/ javascripts/jquery/jquery-latest.pack.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="backend/ javascripts/jquery/plugins/interface/interface.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="backend/ javascripts/subModal/submodalsource.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function randomImage () { var imagenumber = 8 ; var randomnumber = Math.random() ; var rand1 = Math.round( (imagenumber-1) * randomnumber) + 1 ; images = new Array; images[1] = "../pix/main_pic.gif"; images[2] = "../pix/main_pic2.gif"; images[3] = "../pix/main_pic3.gif"; images[4] = "../pix/main_pic4.gif"; images[5] = "../pix/main_pic5.gif"; images[6] = "../pix/main_pic6.gif"; images[7] = "../pix/main_pic7.gif"; images[8] = "../pix/main_pic8.gif"; var image = images[rand1]; var imagetag ="<img src=\""+image+"\" alt=\"Picture of Sunnyview Employees and Patients\" style=\"float:left;\" />"; document.write(imagetag); } //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> //whenthe DOM is ready (page is loaded) $(document).ready(function() { //autocomplete for Document Search on index.cfm $('#autocomplete1').Autocomplete( { source: 'autocomplete_docSearch.cfm', delay: 50, fx: { type: 'slide', duration: 100 }, autofill: false, helperClass: 'autocompleter', selectClass: 'selectAutocompleter', minchars: 1 } ); // Autocomplete for Phone List Search $('#autocompletePhone').Autocomplete( { source: 'autocomplete_PhoneList.cfm', delay: 50, fx: { type: 'slide', duration: 100 }, autofill: false, helperClass: 'autocompleter', selectClass: 'selectAutocompleter', minchars: 1 } ); }); </script> <!-- Local Styles --> <style type="text/css" media="all"> .autocompleter { border: 1px solid #6FBEFF; width: 250px; background-color: #EFF8FF; } .autocompleter ul li { padding: 2px 10px; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11px; } .selectAutocompleter { background-color: #6FBEFF; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <form name="searchForm" action="./index.cfm? page=docsearch&submitted=TRUE" method="post" style="padding-top: 68px; padding-left:100px;"> <input id="autocomplete1" type="text" name="SearchTerms" size="30" maxlength="255" value="" style="border: 1px solid #185693; font- family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; height:17px; color:#006699;" /> <input id="docSearch" type="submit" value="Search Documents" style="border: 1px solid #185693; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans- serif; font-size:11px; background-color:#dce9f5; color:#006699;" /> </form> </div> <div id="nav"> <ul id="navlist"> <li><a href="http://sunweb">Home</a></li> <li><a href="http://sunweb/calendar">Reserve Projector</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=LunchMenu">Lunch Menu</a></li> <li><a href="http://sunweb/forums/viewforum.php?f=36">Suggestion Box</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=education">Education</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="column1"> <div id="column1Content"> <br /> <center> <form name="form1" action="./index.cfm? page=directory&mode=search" method="post"> <input type="text" name="mystring" id="autocompletePhone"/ > <select name="searchby"> <option value="Lastname">Last Name <option value="Firstname">First Name </select>   <input type="submit" value=" Search "> </form> </center> <font class="normal"><a href="./index.cfm? page=directory&mode=sort&sort=dept">Sort by Department</ a>  <a href="./backend/Phone_PrintName.cfm">Print This List</ a></font> <font class="normal"><a href="http://sunweb/ index.cfm?page=pagerlist">Pager List</a></font> </div> </div> <div id="column2"> <div id="column2Content"> <ul> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=departments">Departments</a></li> <li><a href="http://sunweb/helpdesk">Helpdesk</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=directory">Phone List</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=whatnew">What's New</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=contact">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="./index.cfm?page=search">Search</a></li> <li><a href="./backend">Intranet Tools</a></li> <li> <a href="./index.cfm?page=alerts">System Alerts</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"> <center> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http:// www.capitalnews9.com/media/xml/wbox1.asp"></script> <a href="http://sunweb/backend/docs/Tobacco%20Free%20Environment %20Campaign/Website%20Article%20-%20Tobacco-free.doc"><img src="TobaccoFreeLogo.gif" width="82" height="83" border="0" alt="Greater Capital Region Health Care Tobacco Free Initiative" /></ a><br /> <a href="http://sunweb/backend/docs/Tobacco%20Free%20Environment %20Campaign/Website%20Article%20-%20Tobacco-free.doc"><font style="font-size:10px; text-decoration:none;">Tobacco Free Initiative<br />Click for More Information</font></a> </center> </div> </div> <div id="contentBottom"> <!-- Search Google --> <br /> <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td><a href="http://www.google.com/search"><img src="http:// www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google" align="middle" /></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Google Search" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="LW:441;L:http:// www.sunnyview.org/logo.gif;LH:81;AH:left;S:http://sunweb;AWFID:a2c3369fb180cb19;" /> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <!-- Search Google --> </div> <div id="footer"> <a href="./calendar/index.cfm">Reserve Projector</a> | <a href="./ index.cfm?page=lunchmenu">Lunch Menu</a> | <a href="http://sunweb/ suggestions">Suggestion Box</a> | <a href="./index.cfm? page=departments">Departments</a> | <a href="./helpdesk/ index.cfm">Helpdesk</a> | <a href="http://sunweb/forums/viewforum.php? f=13">HospitalTalk</a><br /> <a href="./index.cfm?page=whatnew">What's New</a> | <a href="./ index.cfm?page=directory">Directory</a> | <a href="./privacy/ privacy.htm">Privacy Notice</a> | <a href="./index.cfm? page=contact">Contact</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>

