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Amanjot Singh
Amanjot Singh

Reputation: 101

AutoComplete in a jquery dropDown

I have a dropdownList containing profile names of my customers.

As the number of customers is growing I need an autocomplete functionality, so that I am able to look for a particular user with suggestions, and not forced to look for every existing user in the drop down list.

The following code fetches data from the database:

$.getJSON(
            "profiles/custoomer.aspx?callback=?",
            {},
            function (data) {
                $.each(data, function (value, name) {
                    $('<option>').attr('value', value).text(name).appendTo('#customer_profile');
                });
            }
            );

How can I add autocomplete functionality?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1746

Answers (3)

user2982899
user2982899

Reputation: 1

              $(function() {
                var availableTags = ["ribstar","major"];                    
                $( "#search" ).autocomplete({
                  source: availableTags,
                  select: function( event, ui ) 
                        { 
                              var $this = $(this).val(ui.item.label);
                              $('#sub_cat').children('[name="'+$this.val()+'"]').attr('selected', true);
                        }  
                });
              });

and the html part

<div class="ui-widget"><label for="tags">Search: </label><input type="text" name="search" id="search"></div>
<select name="sub_cat" id="sub_cat">
  <option value="1" name="ribstar">ribstar</option>
  <option value="2" name="major">major</option>
</select>

Upvotes: 0

GOK
GOK

Reputation: 2428

Try using below example and dont forget to include Jquery latest files ;) Njoy Bro

<script>
    $(function() {
        var availableTags = [
            "ActionScript",
            "AppleScript",
            "Asp",
            "BASIC",
            "C",
            "C++",
            "Clojure",
            "COBOL",
            "ColdFusion",
            "Erlang",
            "Fortran",
            "Groovy",
            "Haskell",
            "Java",
            "JavaScript",
            "Lisp",
            "Perl",
            "PHP",
            "Python",
            "Ruby",
            "Scala",
            "Scheme"
        ];
        $( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
            source: availableTags
        });
    });
    </script>



<div class="demo">

<div class="ui-widget">
    <label for="tags">Tags: </label>
    <input id="tags">
</div>

</div><!-- End demo -->



<div style="display: none;" class="demo-description">
<p>The Autocomplete widgets provides suggestions while you type into the field. Here the suggestions are tags for programming languages, give "ja" (for Java or JavaScript) a try.</p>
<p>The datasource is a simple JavaScript array, provided to the widget using the source-option.</p>
</div><!-- End demo-description -->

Upvotes: 0

PoulsQ
PoulsQ

Reputation: 2016

did you try to use the autocomplete componant ? Here is his documentation, it's easy to use and easy to customize !

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/

Upvotes: 1

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