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bhushanvinay
bhushanvinay

Reputation: 449

Why is my Autocomplete not doing the select first and mustmatch

Why is my autocomplete not doing the selectFirst and mustMatch? Do I need a work around for this?

I'm using version 1.8.9 of jQuery.

Here is my setup code:

$(function () {
     $("#SelectedSchool").focus().autocomplete({
         source: function (request, response) {
             $.ajax({
                 url: "/School/FindShools", 
                 type: "POST", dataType: "json",
                 data: {
                    searchText: request.term, 
                    maxResults: 10, 
                    autofill: true, 
                    selectFirst: true, 
                    highlight: true 
                 },
                 success: function (data) { 
                    response($.map(data, function (item) { 
                        return { 
                           label: item.SchoolName, 
                           value: item.SchoolName, 
                           id: item.SchoolId
                        } 
                    })) 
                 }
             })
         },
         select: function (event, ui) { 
             SchoolID = ui.item.id.toString();
             $("#SelectedSchoolID").val(ui.item.id.toString());
         }
     });
});

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1150

Answers (1)

Sergi Papaseit
Sergi Papaseit

Reputation: 16194

The selectFirst and mustMatch options are gone in the jQuery UI autocomplete plugin. They were available in de bassistance.de autocomplete plugin, which has been deprecated.

Here's a migration guide to the new jQuery UI autocomplete.

Quoted from that guide:

  • selectFirst: Similar to autoFill (at the top of this list), this option is gone and has now immediate replacement, nor a need for one. The behaviour for selecting values is solid enough to make this option redundant.

  • mustMatch: Gone, but easy to implement with the select event. Once more, the combobox provides an example for that.

UPDATE
The link to the migration guide isn't working today (2011-04-09). I could fortunately open the site from cache, so I've saved it, zipped it and put it up for anyone to download.

Hope this helps

(2011-04-10: The Migration guide link works again)

Upvotes: 1

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