Hello every, I am new from prototype and am trying to change my methods to jQuery. What I want to do is very familiar to me with prototype, but confuses me when trying to do it with jQ :P
I have spent the past 3 hours playing around with the autocomplete plugins on the site, and read their documentation as well, and nothing seems to fit my needs. What I need is to somehow retrieve the id of the selected item WITHOUT showing it, like I saw in Dan G. Switzer's plugin. The interface plugin felt bloated, and did not work anyway. For when specify the [value] I wanted that to be the value of the field, but not shown. Sorry if I am being unclear, but in prototype, I accomplished this task by editing the result set that the autocomplete field sees. I created a function that grabs the id of the first <li id="34">. So for example, let's say we have a result set of the 50 states, and we select California, and California's ID is 23. the <li id="23"> and I just grab that with a JS function and plug that into a hidden field element. VIOLA! It works, but I cannot figure out how to do this in jQ because all of the plugins I have tried manually set the output style, limit your values, etc. So if anyone has any suggestions that would be GREAT! As I really do not know where to go from here :) Thank you. Sincerely, Jim
