I'm using Jorn's autocomplete ver 1.0.1. I'll check out your article and let you know if it points me in the right direction, thanks.
On Jun 17, 2:59 pm, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which autocomplete are you using? Which version? > > Not meaning to do a shameless plug, but I wrote a blog article that > covered using database IDs with Jorn's autocomplete. > > http://grover.open2space.com/node/190 > > This was back in December, so might be a little dated. But I believe > what you are trying to do seems relatively similar. Perhaps that might > help? > > Shawn > > Adam wrote: > > Tried to post this question once before but didn't seem to work... > > > I'm needing to get a multi-dim JSON array to work for my autocomplete, > > in an effort to mimic the Spotlight design. > > > My JSON currently looks like this: > > > [ > > {"key":"names", "values":[ bunch of values]}, > > {"key":"emails","values": [ bunch of email values ]} > > ] > > > I am wanting to put into an HTML structure like this: > > > <dl> > > <dt>Names</dt> > > <dd><a href="#">name</dd> > > <dd><a href="#">name</dd> > > > <dt>Emails</dt> > > <dd><a href="#">email</dd> > > <dd><a href="#">email</dd> > > </dl> > > > Basically, I want my JS to loop through the JSON array and spit out > > the key into a <dt> tag, then each item into a <dd>. Easier said than > > done. > > > Can anyone give me some direction? I've got it as far as listing all > > the names and emails in <dd>'s, but no <dt>'s are happening... > > > Here is my adapted autocomplete.js code: > > > function parse(data) { > > var parsed = []; > > $(data).each( function() { > > var rows = this.values; > > for (var i=0; i < rows.length; i++) { > > var row = rows[i]; > > if (row) { > > row = row.split("|"); > > parsed[parsed.length] = { > > data: row, > > value: row[0], > > result: options.formatResult && > > options.formatResult(row, > > row[0]) || row[0] > > }; > > } > > } > > }); > > return parsed; > > }; > > > Thanks.
