autocomplete

Scriptaculous autocompleter problem

In Scriptaculous Ajax autocomplter it chooses the first entry by default . how do i stop it from choosing the first option by default?? ...

MicrosoftAjax.js error missing } after function body

I am building a site in asp .net 2.0 web forms. When I load up the page firebug gives me the error: missing } after function body createCallback()("") //]]>\n It's in a file called MicrosoftAjax.js What might be causing this? UPDATE I've done a bit more digging and it looks like the problem is coming from the ajaxtoolkit, specifical...

Using JQuery autocomplete and external Json url in sharepoint 2007

I am trying to implement autocomeplete box in a custom webpart in sharepoint 2007. When i use a static file in same domain (for textbox with id f1) everything works fine but when I use a remote url that gives a json output (for textbox with id f2), it gives a Permission Denied error in javascript. In the final page following is the HTML ...

How to implement autocomplete on a massive dataset

I'm trying to implement something like Google suggest on a web site I am building and am curious how to go about doing in on a very large data set. Sure if you've got 1000 items you cache the items and just loop through them. But how do you go about it when you have a million items? Further, suppose that the items are not one word. Speci...

jquery.autocomplete.js triggering on radio selection and untriggering...

I'm trying to setup a search page which performs two separate kinds of search using two radio buttons which the user can toggle to indicate what it is their searching for. The second search type I'd decided to use a jquery autocomplete script, because there's a relatively small set of searchable items (~213) and this would produce an at...

Auto-complete text field

How do I make an autocomplete text field like the one here at Stack Overflow for the Tags fields? I want to use it for my Rails app. ...

.NET ComboBox Autocomplete failing on slashes

The .NET ComboBox autocomplete will not fully autocomplete with the display text contains a slash. It completes only up to the slash, leaving SelectedIndex == -1 and SelectedValue == null. This behavior stupidly persists no matter whether your autocompletesource is set to ListItems rather than FileSystem or URL. Is there any workaro...

Can I do full text searches with jquery Autocomplete ?

Hi, I want to be able to search a list of full names. The autocomplete demos I have seen have all searched from the beginning. Thats no good as I want matches on surname too. I can live without full text search if it at least follows word boundaries. Sorta like the tag search here. Hows that done? Cheers ...

VS: Automatic "ArgumentNull' check ?

It's often the case when I need to check a method's arguments for not being null, something like: public static bool operator <= (ApplicationVersion i_app1, ApplicationVersion i_app2) { if (i_app1 == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("i_app1"); if (i_app2 == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("i_app2"); [...] } ...

Asp.Net Search, found changes on key press.

I am trying to implement a search bar in Asp.Net where the results change with every key press. I want the search bar to contain a drop down list of available results pertaining to what they have typed in thus far. So if you were searching for states, and you typed M, it would list all states starting with M, but if you add an i to tha...

Trying to use JQuery's autocomplete with ajax call for results.

Well I have a 50000+ row table so I can't load all rows into each page for the user to use autocomplete, so I am trying to use an ajax call via the extraParams parameter but don't know: 1) What format to make the results display in on the page being called via ajax (get-dropdown-results.xml in this case) 2) How to get these results int...

How do I alter tab autocomplete in bash to dive through folders?

I have a folder 'test' which contains another folder 'test2' When I type 'cd te[tab]' it auto-completes to 'cd test/' How do I make it autocomplete to 'cd test/test2/', without hitting tab again? To clarify: test is the only folder/file in the folder test. I want this to work recursively so if there is a folder/with/a/lot/of/single/fi...

Send additional data with autocomplete options

I have a field that autocompletes on person name, so it has options like "Obama, Barack", "Lincoln, Abe", etc. These people also have additional attributes, say "Birthplace" and "Phone number". When a user picks an option from the autocomplete, I would like that person's additional attributes to automatically populate hidden form fields...

How to keep an autocomplete result on top of another frameset

I have a frames page with a header and a body just below it. The header frame is roughly 20px; about the height of a textbox which is exactly what I want. In this upper frame, I have a textbox with an autocomplete attached to it. What is happening is when I search for something in the textbox, the results from the autocomplete are droppi...

How can I create an autocomplete ComboBox in VB6?

Is it possible to use the default ComboBox control under VB6 to make it a smart ComboBox? We suppose that the values are already populated in the ComboBox. For example: New Delhi New World New York We need the ComboBox to respond to one of the default events, so when for example the user writes 'N' the value in the ComboBox will be th...

jQuery Autocomplete in ASP.net MVC doesn't work when the control created in Ajax way

I am running an issue, could you help me out with your knowledge..? Basically, this autocomplete extension of jQuery depends onto the ready method of the jQueryLibrary. (I am not 100% sure what it does actually, but I can guess it checks wheather the DOM has been loaded, if loaded it does something as an regular "onload" event handler)....

AJAX Toolkit AutoCompleteExtender with a *PAGE* service?

Hi - I have an application currently using the AJAX Toolkit AutoCompleteExtender to extend a textbox. It is using a webservice to select and retrieve the data. The docs for the toolkit say that you can also use a page service and I have been trying for days to get that to wrok - both in the vs2005 and the 2.0 framework version and vs20...

jquery autocomplete question on data feed

Hi there, I'm looking for a simple way to feed autocomplete with a dictionary and have it displayed like this: "value_to_display": value_that_gets_inserted, eg when one writes Pink, "Pink Floyd (England)" appears and if he chooses it, Pink Floyd gets inserted into the input field. I have my data locally, no ajax is required so this ...

Best way to maintain an autocomplete/suggest list across sessions

Hi, I would like to maintain a list of all of the strings entered into a ComboBox across all uses of an application on a given PC, for use as the AutoCompleteSource for that ComboBox, i.e., I enter in "Fred" in the ComboBox, commit the data, close the application, reopen the application, reopen the ComboBox, type "F", receive the suggest...

jquery autocomplete: how to handle special characters (& and ')?

While using jQuery's autocomplete, I've noticed that characters & and ' are escaped as &amp; and &#39; Example, autocomplete displays Barbara’s Straight Son but when I choose this the field shows Barbara&#39;s Straight Son. Any ideas how I can avoid this? Thank you for your time! ...