try: $('#topic1').focus(function(){ $('#topic1').onChange(0,true);}
On Sep 9, 8:57 am, Shelane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To no avail, I tried adding this line: > > $('#topic1').trigger('keydown'); > > I also tried it as: > > $('#topic1').trigger('keypress'); > > to make this function like this: > > $('#topic1').focus(function(){ > $('#topic1').search(); > $('#topic1').trigger('keydown'); > > }); > > neither caused it to work. > > As I did mention, the .search worked to cause the query to go to the > server and the server returned results, but the results weren't > displayed. > > On Sep 8, 11:11 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry I wasn't very clear, I don't mean to have your users do that, I > > mean it gave you a clue how that function worked. > > You need to add an on-focus event to the field that then bubbles a key- > > up event that will trigger the autocomplete for the user. > > >http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.2/Events > > > On Sep 8, 11:07 am, Shelane Enos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This worked. Thanks. > > > > Now, if I can just get something for question 2 :-) > > > > On 9/8/08 10:45 AM, "MorningZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For > > > > > "Can you submit additional parameters based on the value of another > > > > input field?" > > > > >http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete#Dependencies_between_fields