Comments on: How To: jQuery Autocomplete

By: ricky

ricky — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:06:19 +0000

thx Paul for your explanation. GBU.

By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:29:26 +0000

I haven’t had much time to check out the new version of the autocomplete since it is now integrated with the jQuery UI pack.

There is however a great example of what I think you’re after here http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/ the first box above hidden input. If you select the name of a bird then hit get value it gets an id. Not sure it’s exactly what you want but it’s close & I can’t modify it or anything at the minute since I’m usin my iPod and don’t have access to my computer at the minute.

Let ne know how near that gets and I’ll see if I can help you some more tomorrow when I’m back at my computer.

By: SCL

SCL — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:36:09 +0000

What should I do if I want to save the ID of each item in the autocomplete and use that ID later?
For example, each displayed item in the autocomplete must have an ID that is stored in a hidden field (not displayed in the autocomplete). When the user select an item and click Submit button, the ID of the selected item would be used to retrieve other information from the database.
In ASP’s Ajax, this can be done easily by using an attribute. But in JQuery I haven’t found a way of doing it so far.
Can you help me? Thanks a lot.

By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:33:13 +0000

You might want to try out the new version of the autocomplete. It has now be integrated into the jQuery UI package and the version this tutorial was for has been deprecated. Here is a link to the migration guide for moving from this version to jQuery UI's version.

By: ricky

ricky — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:13:34 +0000

How to show only first letter on available word? like a for ‘apple to apple’ not ‘big apple’. thx.

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Chicago Limousine Service — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:44:00 +0000

Hi Paul,

can I also use this one in my website? Thanks a lot.

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By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:21:56 +0000

Yeah, I’ve tried & tried to get the same thing to happen with the data you provided but it just isn’t happening…

I would imagine you should be able to try another jQuery autocomplete script. I can’t see there being much of a difference in the way they are used.