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[jquery] autocomplete show all options on focus

Answer 1

+1 A:

I think a standard combobox is more what you need.

<select>
    <option value="15">00:15</option>
    <option value="30">00:30</option>
    <!-- etc etc etc -->
</select>

jQuery isn't always better.

Natrium 2009-09-23 08:57:18

Why this answer was voted down?

Kamarey 2009-09-23 09:15:02

probably because I did not provide a direct answer to the question, although I am sure a combobox would be better.

Natrium 2009-09-23 09:31:45

@Natrium, I wanted an autocomplete instead of a dropdown because sometimes the session times could be 1:05 or 1:10 ( five minute increments instead of fifteen minute) or the user may want to use 12hr format (am/pm) instead of 24hr, so an input box is better in this case

krishna 2009-09-23 10:06:03

in my opinion, this can all be fixed in a combobox.

Natrium 2009-09-23 11:18:40

Dropdown's usability is quite poor especially if you have lots of values to choose from. I've done some time editing in the past and I must say this is a good solution to give users the ability to quickly choose from 15 minute increments and then edit to a more specific time if they want to.

inkredibl 2009-09-24 09:18:37

Answer 2

+4 A:

You have to set minChars to be 0, like this:

$('.autocompleteTime').autocomplete($sessionTimes, {minChars: 0});

Also note that you don't have to start variable name with a $, you could just write sessionTimes everywhere you use it and it would be okay. Probably coming from a PHP background? :)

inkredibl 2009-09-23 09:09:35

Thanks inkredibl. That works. Well, i like dollars more the better :)

krishna 2009-09-23 09:38:24

I tried this but you still need to press down arrow or click the control to actually show the autocomplete options.

Fajar 2009-10-13 02:30:06

Maybe from a Perl background ?

alex 2010-06-11 02:30:15

@Fajar What do you mean? Of course the user has to trigger it. If you want it to trigger automatically just call `click()` on it, i.e. `$('.autocompleteTime').click()`

alex 2010-06-11 02:31:06

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