style problem with jQueryUI Autocomplete widget (using remote datasource)

Question

<input class="ui-autocomplete-input"/> represents the text field to be autocompleted.

<ul>...</ul> contains the list of matching items from the text field input. It is added to the document by remote call as you type.

<ul>...</ul> is added just inside the closing </body> tag. I was expecting the <ul>...</ul> to be placed just after the <input class="ui-autocomplete-input"/>. Because this does not happen, the <ul>...</ul> falls outside of the containing div and the resulting style is broken.

Suggestions? Can I specify where the <ul>...</ul> gets placed in the document? Thanks in advance for your time.

Answer 1

Post your source (so we can see exactly what we're working with here) but basically you need just need to find the parent and then appendTo

$("ul").appendTo($("input.ui-autocomplete-input").parent());