Reputation: 24923
There are a lot of typeahead ajax examples out there for bootstrap 2, for example this here twitter bootstrap typeahead ajax example.
However I am using bootstrap 3 and I could not find a complete example, instead there are just a bunch of incomplete information snippets with links to other websites, for example this here Where is the typeahead JavaScript module in Bootstrap 3 RC 1?
Could someone please post a fully working example on how to use typeahead with bootstrap 3, if you load the data from the server via ajax, every time the user changes the input.
Upvotes: 25
Views: 103220
Reputation: 2796
Here is my step by step experience, inspired by typeahead examples, from a Scala/PlayFramework app we are working on.
In a script LearnerNameTypeAhead.coffee
(convertible of course to JS) I have:
$ ->
learners = new Bloodhound(
datumTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.obj.whitespace("value")
queryTokenizer: Bloodhound.tokenizers.whitespace
remote: "/learner/namelike?nameLikeStr=%QUERY"
)
learners.initialize()
$("#firstName").typeahead
minLength: 3
hint: true
highlight:true
,
name: "learners"
displayKey: "value"
source: learners.ttAdapter()
I included the typeahead bundle and my script on the page, and there is a div
around my input field as follows:
<script [email protected]("javascripts/typeahead.bundle.js")></script>
<script [email protected]("javascripts/LearnerNameTypeAhead.js") type="text/javascript" ></script>
<div>
<input name="firstName" id="firstName" class="typeahead" placeholder="First Name" value="@firstName">
</div>
The result is that for each character typed in the input field after the first minLength (3) characters, the page issues a GET request with a URL looking like /learner/namelike?nameLikeStr=
plus the currently typed characters. The server code returns a json array of objects containing fields "id" and "value", for example like this:
[ {
"id": "109",
"value": "Graham Jones"
},
{
"id": "5833",
"value": "Hezekiah Jones"
} ]
For play I need something in the routes file:
GET /learner/namelike controllers.Learners.namesLike(nameLikeStr:String)
And finally, I set some of the styling for the dropdown, etc. in a new typeahead.css file which I included in the page's <head>
(or accessible .css)
.tt-dropdown-menu {
width: 252px;
margin-top: 12px;
padding: 8px 0;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
-webkit-border-radius: 8px;
-moz-border-radius: 8px;
border-radius: 8px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
.typeahead {
background-color: #fff;
}
.typeahead:focus {
border: 2px solid #0097cf;
}
.tt-query {
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);
}
.tt-hint {
color: #999
}
.tt-suggestion {
padding: 3px 20px;
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 24px;
}
.tt-suggestion.tt-cursor {
color: #fff;
background-color: #0097cf;
}
.tt-suggestion p {
margin: 0;
}
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 1
<input id="typeahead-input" type="text" data-provide="typeahead" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var data = ["Aamir", "Amol", "Ayesh", "Sameera", "Sumera", "Kajol", "Kamal",
"Akash", "Robin", "Roshan", "Aryan"];
$(function() {
$('#typeahead-input').typeahead({
source: function (query, process) {
process(data);
});
}
});
});
</script>
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 689
With bootstrap3-typeahead, I made it to work with the following code:
<input id="typeahead-input" type="text" data-provide="typeahead" />
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$('#typeahead-input').typeahead({
source: function (query, process) {
return $.get('search?q=' + query, function (data) {
return process(data.search_results);
});
}
});
})
</script>
The backend provides search service under the search
GET endpoint, receiving the query in the q
parameter, and returns a JSON in the format { 'search_results': ['resultA', 'resultB', ... ] }
. The elements of the search_results
array are displayed in the typeahead input.
Upvotes: 40
Reputation: 31
I'm using this https://github.com/biggora/bootstrap-ajax-typeahead
The result of code using Codeigniter/PHP
<pre>
$("#produto").typeahead({
onSelect: function(item) {
console.log(item);
getProductInfs(item);
},
ajax: {
url: path + 'produto/getProdName/',
timeout: 500,
displayField: "concat",
valueField: "idproduto",
triggerLength: 1,
method: "post",
dataType: "JSON",
preDispatch: function (query) {
showLoadingMask(true);
return {
search: query
}
},
preProcess: function (data) {
if (data.success === false) {
return false;
}else{
return data;
}
}
}
});
</pre>
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 177
Here you can find info on how to upgrade to v3: http://tosbourn.com/2013/08/javascript/upgrading-from-bootstraps-typeahead-to-typeahead-js/
Here are some examples too: http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/examples/
Upvotes: 1