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RubyRedGrapefruit
RubyRedGrapefruit

Reputation: 12224

Is there a jQuery alternative to a drop-down box that could contain over 100,00 values?

I have a drop down box that has worked until now. New data in our system means that having a drop down box on a particular screen is no longer feasible, because it would contain tens or hundreds of thousands of values.

I still need to have just one value selected by the user. Is there a better control I can use for this? Such as something that would allow the user to reduce the potential dataset by typing the first few characters?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1148

Answers (4)

Aaria Carter-Weir
Aaria Carter-Weir

Reputation: 1679

This is a really good one: http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

However, it can be a bit inflexible sometimes. I wrote an xa.js fork of it from scratch at: https://github.com/skippychalmers/xa-chosen

Upvotes: 0

Phillip Senn
Phillip Senn

Reputation: 47635

I think one of the last yayQuery podcasts mentioned a website that had a listbox that was populated as the user scrolled through it.

Upvotes: 1

kmb
kmb

Reputation: 436

You could use a plugin like FCBKcomplete. It generates a Facebook like search option.

Upvotes: 2

bobwah
bobwah

Reputation: 2568

You could use one of the autocomplete plugins:

JQuery Autocomplete

Devbridge Autocomplete

jQuery Autocomplete Mod

Upvotes: 4

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