How can it be that well working (out of the box) autocompleters are so hard to come by? Well, this time I wanted one for jQuery, since I didn't want to introduce yet another javascript framework for this little thingy.
I found two different autocompleters under the jQuery project.
The first one didn't really work as ajaxy as I wanted. I couldn't get it to update the selection base while entering data. Instead it could only load a dataset when bound to the input then do some filtering itself.
The second looked much better but despite all the configuration options I couldn't get it to read simple JSON responses. Instead it seemed only to work with the default newline-separated-"formatted" datasets.
So. Should I fix one of them or continue looking? Well, the second had some eyecandy going so I jumped in to it. Didn't take long. Alot of cutting (since json becomes simpler than "my own fluffy format") and fiddling with the requests and voila, an exellent, simpler ajax autocompleter for jQuery. Source code GPL (beware, it's hacked for my needs!):
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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