Comments on: jquery.suggest, an alternative jQuery based autocomplete library

By: michael

michael — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:12:31 +0000

How would you go about returning a second response as well as the name that could be inserted into a hidden field.

like searching for “pet” would return “peter” into the text input field and “8″ into a hidden input field

By: Willem

Willem — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:50:30 +0000

I have your site for its useful and funny content and simple design..

By: 老孔的Blog » Blog Archive » List of Useful jQuery Plugins

老孔的Blog » Blog Archive » List of Useful jQuery Plugins — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:03:09 +0000

[…] browser. Treetable Make a tree view out of an HTML table. Tree ViewEXCELLENT Tree view controls. Suggest Add autocomplete to input fields. YAV Form validation library. jqUploader Provides a status bar for […]

By: Ivan Wills

Ivan Wills — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:41:32 +0000

Hi,

Like jquery@j0rd.com above I have an auto complete that is dependent on another select box, I have tried adding an change function to the other select box which

eg
HTML

one
two

JS
var s = $(’#select’);
s.change( function() {
$(’#suggest’).suggest( ‘?page=suggest&select=” + s.val() );
});
s.change();

This kind of works execpt that each time you choose a different value of #select you get a new suggest action which appears as well as the old suggest. Is there a way that you could delete old suggests if they exist?

Also is there a way to get a key value pair like a select list may be adding the key to a hidden field?

Ivan

By: zoran

zoran — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:48:12 +0000

Learn to write documentation!!
Danke.

By: vitto

vitto — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:28:29 +0000

hi
i haven’t actually tried your plugin (yet!) but i’m wondering if i can restrict the search only around the first letters i type in the input field. I mean:

i type “a” and i receive only words starting with “a”, then i add “s” and i receive only words starting with “as”.

thanks
vitto

By: Paulo Fagiani

Paulo Fagiani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:14:07 +0000

I’ve come up with a simple hack that will allow you to use DWR calls as an alternative to the current regular AJAX calls, to do so, just replace this code:

$.get(options.source, {q: q}, function(txt) {
$results.hide();
var items = parseTxt(txt, q);
displayItems(items);
addToCache(q, items, txt.length);
});

with:

if(typeof options.source == “string”)
{
//This is what suggest would do by default…
$.get(options.source, {q: q}, function(txt) {
$results.hide();
var items = parseTxt(txt, q);
displayItems(items);
addToCache(q, items, txt.length);
});
}
else
{
//This is the DWR implementation hack… yeah, need to DRY some code here, but just want to keep it a simple hack!
options.source(q, function(data)
{
var txt = “”;
for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
{
txt += data[i] + “\n”;
}
$results.hide();
var items = parseTxt(txt, q);
displayItems(items);
addToCache(q, items, txt.length);
});
}

This hack won’t break the current way of using it. To use DWR, just pass the source as the class.method like: MyDWRClass.myDWRMethod without quotes, then it will recognize it is a class and will send the first parameter as the typed text and handle the data that comes back.

Maybe this can be patched to the main plugin? Thanks.

By: Francis del Mundo

Francis del Mundo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:19:25 +0000

Whenever I call a new .suggest() on a text box, the number of dropdown instances increases by one.

Couldn’t figure out how to fix this one. Any suggestions?

By: Yaroslav Vorozhko

Yaroslav Vorozhko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:15:12 +0000

Hi guys,
thanks for this greate plugin.
I have one problem.
How to pass multiple parameters with query.
I need pass not only search query, i need also pass type(’cars’, ‘mobiles’, …) and some additional parameters.
My code is following:
jQuery(function() {
jQuery(”#suggest”).suggest(”searchSuggest”,{source:”ltype”+$(’#ltype’).val()})
});

But it is don’t work.

How can i fix it?
Thank You,
Yaroslav

By: Pease

Pease — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:17:07 +0000

I find a bug in your code,”$results.html(html).show();” remove the iframe html and make it not work