autocomplete text box

Question

i want to make a text box like stackoverflow have for the tag at askquestion page where data pop up as we write something. I want to fetch the tag from the database rather local static data. In my project i am using jsp servlet hibernate and spring Please tell me how to do..

thanks in advance

Answer 1

I would recommend not writing it but rather use one of JSF-based frameworks such as RichFaces But if you do want to do it yourself - web is full of tutorials on how to do it such as this

Answer 2

I recommend below jquery plugin. You can use multiple autocomplete textbox easyly.

http://jquery.bassistance.de/autocomplete/demo/