<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - Remote datasource</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../themes/base/all.css"> <script src="../../external/jquery/jquery.js"></script> <script src="../../ui/core.js"></script> <script src="../../ui/widget.js"></script> <script src="../../ui/position.js"></script> <script src="../../ui/menu.js"></script> <script src="../../ui/autocomplete.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../demos.css"> <style> .ui-autocomplete-loading { background: white url("images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif") right center no-repeat; } </style> <script> $(function() { function log( message ) { $( "<div>" ).text( message ).prependTo( "#log" ); $( "#log" ).scrollTop( 0 ); } $( "#birds" ).autocomplete({ source: "search.php", minLength: 2, select: function( event, ui ) { log( ui.item ? "Selected: " + ui.item.value + " aka " + ui.item.id : "Nothing selected, input was " + this.value ); } }); }); </script> </head> <body> <div class="ui-widget"> <label for="birds">Birds: </label> <input id="birds"> </div> <div class="ui-widget" style="margin-top:2em; font-family:Arial"> Result: <div id="log" style="height: 200px; width: 300px; overflow: auto;" class="ui-widget-content"></div> </div> <div class="demo-description"> <p>The Autocomplete widgets provides suggestions while you type into the field. Here the suggestions are bird names, displayed when at least two characters are entered into the field.</p> <p>The datasource is a server-side script which returns JSON data, specified via a simple URL for the source-option. In addition, the minLength-option is set to 2 to avoid queries that would return too many results and the select-event is used to display some feedback.</p> </div> </body> </html>
