CODEWITHSUNDEEP
jquery-uihtmlautocompleteinnerhtml
yenssen
yenssen

Reputation: 1191

Jquery UI autocomplete. How to write the results inside a div using innerHTML?

I have an autocomplete field into my website. I just want to display the results inside a -div- tag instead the popup window that the plugin opens natively.

I searched already for solutions for this in other posts, but what they do is to change the position of the "popup" window, and what I want is to replace the content of the -div- with the results, not to put the popup over it.

Any advice will be very appreciated.

This is the code that I have:

<!doctype html>

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - Default functionality</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css" />
    <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>
</head>
<body>

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


</body>
</html>

.

Example

Upvotes: 3

Views: 11110

Answers (2)

Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Hamidi
Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Hamidi

Reputation: 262979

As j08691 says, you have to handle the open event of the widget. However, since you also want to select the items in the #results element, copying them will not be enough.

I would suggest you reparent the whole autocompletion menu under your #results element instead, and reset its position style attribute to static so it remains in place:

$("#tags").autocomplete({
    source: availableTags,
    open: function() {
        $(this).autocomplete("widget")
               .appendTo("#results")
               .css("position", "static");
    }
});

You can see the results in this update to your fiddle.

Upvotes: 10

j08691
j08691

Reputation: 207900

Use autocomplete's open event like in this jsFiddle example.

    open: function(e, ui) {
        var list = '';
        var results = $('ul.ui-autocomplete.ui-widget-content a');
        results.each(function() {
            list += $(this).html() + '<br />';
        });
        $('#results').html(list);
    }

Upvotes: 4

Related Questions