Dylan, Thanks, I think I sort of have it figured out. Right now I have it working which is great, although doing what you did, I am only able to do it if I include the ID visually in the list, is there a way around this to get it to not show, but still retrieve that value?
Thanks, Jim On Jul 31, 2:40 am, "Dylan Verheul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look athttp://www.dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete > > Type 'vul' into the first search box, and pick a vulture :-) > Watch the alert box. > Look at the source code to see how it is done. > Documentation is linked on the page. > > -Dylan > > On 7/31/07, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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
