Gordon,
I think the quickSearch plugin: http://rikrikrik.com/jquery/quicksearch/ will help you. SEAN O ______________ www.sean=o.com Gordon-35 wrote: > > > http://www.vulgarisoip.com/2007/06/29/jquerysuggest-an-alternative-jquery-based-autocomplete-library/ > demonstrates a plugin that's really close to what I want, it will pick > up on elements where the word entered isn't the first word in the > strings being searched. Unfortunately, it still requires all the > words to be in the order they appear in the strings and doesn't seem > to match when words are ommited. Try "eastern", "warbler" and > "eastern warbler" to see what I mean. If this plugin matched on > "eastern warbler" or even on "warbler eastern" it would be pretty much > just what I needed functionality wise. Additionally it doesn't need > any ajax support as the UL with all the addresses in it is already on > the page. I just need to process that list, and use it as the basis > of the autocomplete. > > On Nov 19, 10:16 am, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I currently have a brief to develop a system to help people find >> addresses in a list loaded into a web page. At the moment they're >> displayed as a single long list (a ul), and the oser clicks the one he >> wants to use. The problem is that in some cases this list can run to >> hundreds of entries. >> >> The first plan was to simply have a button to click on the page that >> invokes the browser's ctrl-f behaviour, but there doesn't seem to be a >> sensible cross-browser way to do it. >> >> My second idea was to use jQuery and one of the autocomplete plugins, >> convert the list into the data the autocomplete plugin needs to >> operate on and suggest addresses as users type into the field. This >> seemed a better approach but then I hit a problem that the >> autocomplete plugins that I've found so far all seem to search on >> exact phrases, which is not going to be very useful. Addresses in the >> list are in the format <recipient name>, <address>, <postcode> so a >> user would have to start by entering the name of the recipient >> followed by the address and post code for the autocomplete to work. >> If the user was to start with a postcode or street address, as most >> users would probably consider sensible, then the autocomplete would >> return no results. >> >> What I really need is something that works in a similar manner to the >> autocomplete plugins I've found so far, but that doesn't care about >> the order of the words typed into the search box. The only constraint >> should be that the strings being matched against contain all the words >> typed. >> >> For example, if an address is listed as "Mister Foobar, 123 Fake >> street, Quuxville, AS1 23D, then the autocomplete plugin would suggest >> that address if the user typed in "fake street as1", or "fake >> foobar". Are there any autocumplete plugins that support doing this? > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autosuggest-tf4835224s27240.html#a13842444 Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
