Please take a look at the examples here:
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/demo/
The "remote" examples are based on PHP, but still show the essential
stuff. You've got it all mixed up.
Jörn
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:57 PM, kreiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm close to getting the autocomplete to finally work...but.....
>
> First of all, I'm using Java / .jsp to query a database for results
>
> I'm sending the url to my servlet, my servlet passes the data back to
> the .jsp page....Nothing appears in my dropdown UNLESS I use my mouse,
> click outside of the textbox and then click back into it. Then the
> autocomplete works great and displays the data from the database
>
> I've tried IE, Opera, Firefox and everyone of them requires me to
> start typing in the text box, click out, click back in then the
> autocomplete displays.
>
> Is this a bug or am I'm doing something wrong.
>
> I've read something in this form about a guy wanting to know if there
> was a "reinitialize" function that could be called in the javascript
> once the data was brought back from the servlet...I didn't see a
> solutions, but think maybe this is what I need.
>
> Here is sample code:
>
> //JavaScript Code
> function getNames()
> {
> $("#name").autocomplete("employeedirectory?command=ajax&q=" +
> document.forms[0].test.value + "& limit=10");
> }
>
> //HTML
> Name:
> <input type="text" id="name" onkeyup="getNames()
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
