Look at http://www.dyve.net/jquery/?autocomplete
Type 'vul' into the first search box, and pick a vulture :-) Watch the alert box. Look at the source code to see how it is done. Documentation is linked on the page. -Dylan On 7/31/07, Jim Newfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello every, > > I am new from prototype and am trying to change my methods to jQuery. > What I want to do is very familiar to me with prototype, but confuses > me when trying to do it with jQ :P > > I have spent the past 3 hours playing around with the autocomplete > plugins on the site, and read their documentation as well, and nothing > seems to fit my needs. What I need is to somehow retrieve the id of > the selected item WITHOUT showing it, like I saw in Dan G. Switzer's > plugin. The interface plugin felt bloated, and did not work anyway. > For when specify the [value] I wanted that to be the value of the > field, but not shown. > > > Sorry if I am being unclear, but in prototype, I accomplished this > task by editing the result set that the autocomplete field sees. I > created a function that grabs the id of the first <li id="34">. So for > example, let's say we have a result set of the 50 states, and we > select California, and California's ID is 23. the <li id="23"> and I > just grab that with a JS function and plug that into a hidden field > element. VIOLA! It works, but I cannot figure out how to do this in jQ > because all of the plugins I have tried manually set the output style, > limit your values, etc. > > So if anyone has any suggestions that would be GREAT! As I really do > not know where to go from here :) > > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Jim > >
