A Google link? Come on, man. Why even reply?
Phunky, there are autocomplete plugins. You can find them on this page: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins I've used and enhanced this one: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm My enhanced version includes the changes listed below. Let me know if you'd like to use it! Updates to jquery.autocomplete.js - You can have a question mark in your Url (will use a & instead, in that case). - Responses are expected to be Json. - If there are more results than the number to be displayed, an ellipsis is shown. - Added the option displayField. Whatever you specify for this option will be the field that is displayed in the search results. The default is "id". - Added the option valueField. Specify a string to use as the attribute to use for the value of the field. The default is "id". - Added the option formFieldForValue. Specify a string that matches the field you want to use to store the value of the selected item. For example, "#MyHiddenField". - Took out the caching for now, because it was causing problems and I don't currently think it's a good idea. - Added the option onUnknownValueEntered, which is an event called when the user enters a value that isn't found. The value entered is passed as a parameter to the function you specify. - The onItemSelect and onUnknownValueEntered callbacks pass the input field to you as the second argument (the first being the li). Bugfixes: - Fixed a bug in moveSelect(step) that allowed an empty list (lis) to be indexed into, even when the .length was 0. - Fixed a bug which caused raw Html to be inserted into the autocompleted field when tabbing when nothing was selected. - In selectItem(li), I added a line that converts all of the Html entities (e.g. &) to their textual counterparts (e.g. &). Diego A. wrote: > > > Start here: > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jquery+autocomplete&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-14,GGGL:en > > > On Aug 30, 9:33 am, Phunky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, please do excuse my lack of knowledge with JS and JQuery but i >> have attempted to avoid everything JS for many years as i just did not >> like it. >> >> Although JQuery did make some simple aspects more manageable i still >> try to avoid it... but sadly now i need to work with AJAX to make >> aspects of a project more simple for its users :D >> >> I am currently trying to create a Username Look up function with >> JQuery and i am trying to learn how to do this by hacking up the >> jquery.autocomplete plugin i stumbled apon via pengoworks.com. >> >> But i feel im failing as i dont quite understand what is happening >> with the script and this means im not really learning anything along >> the way - which is not good for me in the long run as i would like to >> finally get my head around JS ;) >> >> So if someone would like to step me in the right direction to what i >> need to look at for creating a simple JQuery plugin/function that >> would allow me to >> >> 1: Grab the value of a form input >> 2: Grab results of a .php page via AJAX ( $.get()?? ) >> 3: Check through the AJAX results ( should i return the data as JSON? >> or just | it? ) >> 4: If there is a match / likeness for what is in the form input >> addClass('error') IF NOT addClass('accept') >> >> Quite simple really, but with my head my arse regarding JS im not 100% >> sure what i should be looking to get through the points. >> >> If someone could just point me to the correct aspects of the API or >> Help pages that would be great. >> >> Many thanks for any help and sorry if im just being a twittering >> little JS noob :( > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Form-Input-Lookup-tf4353491s15494.html#a12406718 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
