Comments on: AutoComplete.js update 1.2

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:56:35 +0000

it’s very nice!
Can i use it in ASP and how?
Thanks.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:13:24 +0000

This is great! I like this much more than the ASP.NET AutoCompleteExtender which I was using previously. One addition I would like to see is support for more events - OnSending and OnRecieved in particular. I’d love to have an indicator message/image to let the user know that something is happening and these events would be key in updating the UI.

Also, the input element gets passed into the OnSelect event, but the item that was selected does not. This means that you can’t customize processing based upon what was clicked - which is something else I was trying to do. For example, if item A was clicked navigate to page-A.html, if item B was clicked, hide a div, etc….

I managed to modify your code to accomplish both of these remarkably easily (thanks for writing good code!) but I figured the feedback would be nice.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:50:36 +0000

Sorry, my mistake in last post,
im not using iframe , but is a div with overflow: scroll

By: Fernando

Fernando — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:32:31 +0000

Hi,
The value of the initial position is incorrect when using iframes

you can see this screenshot here:

http://pressenter.com.ar/~ftoledo/tmp/Screenshot.png

any workaround for that issue?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:42:29 +0000

is it possible for to make the autocomplete automatically requery for new results when you select a suggested item? I’m using it to autocomplete path names, so it would be nice if selecting a directory automatically showed all the subdirectories…

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:07:51 +0000

Hi Beau,
the Autocomplete works fine, except that I can not work with special characters like german umlaute (ü,ö,ä,ß). Tried to encode the results if umlaute are in but this shows e.g. ü in the selection.
I would appreciate any suggestion.
Regards Georg

By: Kees van Dieren

Kees van Dieren — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:06:15 +0000

Oops, typed some xml, which has been stripped away for about 50%!

By: VitorGGA

VitorGGA — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:40:27 +0000

Hy,
I like this script, is simple!!!
Is possible can call the suggestions (autocomplete combo) of a button? I like add an button “Suggestions” to make easy to peoples.
Thanks, sorry for my bad english.

By: starcxt

starcxt — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:20:56 +0000

I downloaded it yestoday,and I found an error on it.
When you type some character,and do not move up/down key,then there is no options selected,then if you push “Enter” key,you get an error.So I modified the function like below:

select: function()
{

if(this.selector.options.length){
var index = 0;
if (this.selector.selectedIndex != -1)
{
index = this.selector.selectedIndex;
}
this.input.value = this.selector.options[index].value;
}
this.cancel();
if(typeof this.options.onSelect == ‘function’)
{
this.options['onSelect'](this.input);
}

}

Then it works fine.
Maybe it’s not right,because I havn’t read the all of the code right now.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:28:53 +0000

Another suggestion: When highlighting an option in the select via the keyboard and pressing TAB, a selection of that option should be made. What happens now is that it just hides the select.

BTW - I have modified the source to include all of these suggestions. If you (or anyone else) is interested, you can contact me at bartlewis[at]gmail[dot]com