Hello everyone, I am new from prototype and scriptaculous and have been puzzled all day by trying to figure out this autocomplete business with jQuery. I have searched all over including the plugins page on the jquery website and cannot find what I need, an autocomplete field that will get the ID of the selection without showing it. A good example would be let's say we take the id a company was assigned to, say 3434. When the user clicks on that company, I want 3434 to be submitted with the form, but NOT in the actual text box, or anywhere visible. I was able to do this in prototype by assigned an id to the <li> that is equal to the ID, then the id is taken from the <li> element of the selection then submitted as a hidden form element.
So basically I neeed a way to have the predetermined IT of the selection to be able to be submitted along with the data, but is not visible anywhere to the user. I really would like to avoid using prototype/scripaculous but I might have to if there is no solution via jQuery :/ Thanks for any advice.
