Thanks Tried your code.
I am closer but still not working correctly My 'searching' image shows up and turns but I get no results. > why dont you try the same ajax method that is used with the city > local > > #1. create a page like names.cfm > add the below code > <cfsilent> > <cfset debug = false /> > <cfparam name="url.q" type="string" /> > <cfquery name="getMatches" datasource="cfdocexamples"> > select firstname,LASTNAME from employee where lower(firstname) > like > '#lCase(url.q)#%' > </cfquery> > </cfsilent><cfoutput query="getMatches">#getMatches. > firstname##getMatches.LASTNAME# > </cfoutput> > > #2 apply the input to autocomplete and specify the ajax page. see > complete code below > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1" /> > <title>Untitled Document</title> > <script src=".jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > <script src="jquery.autocomplete.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.autocomplete.css"/> > <script> > function findValue(li) { > if( li == null ) return alert("No match!"); > // if coming from an AJAX call, let's use the CityId as the value > if( !!li.extra ) var sValue = li.extra[0]; > // otherwise, let's just display the value in the text box > else var sValue = li.selectValue; > //alert("The value you selected was: " + sValue); > } > > function selectItem(li) { > findValue(li); > } > function formatItem(row) { > return row[0] + " (id: " + row[1] + ")"; > } > > function lookupAjax(){ > var oSuggest = $("#suggest")[0].autocompleter; > > oSuggest.findValue(); > > return false; > } > > function lookupLocal(){ > var oSuggest = $("#suggest")[0].autocompleter; > > oSuggest.findValue(); > > return false; > } > > $(document).ready(function(){ > $("#suggest").autocomplete( > "names.cfm", > { > delay:10, > minChars:2, > matchSubset:1, > matchContains:1, > cacheLength:10, > onItemSelect:selectItem, > onFindValue:findValue, > formatItem:formatItem, > autoFill:true > } > ); > }) > </script> > </head> > <body> > <label>Auto suggest Sample</label> > <input name="suggest" id="suggest" /> > </body> > </html> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:322914 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4