so basically the original code at http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete#Example is [code] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/demo/main.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.bgiframe.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.dimensions.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var data = "Core Selectors Attributes Traversing Manipulation CSS Events Effects Ajax Utilities".split(" "); $("#example").autocomplete(data); }); </script>
</head> <body> API Reference: <input id="example" /> (try "C" or "E") </body> </html> [/code] and then i added the search feature (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/ Autocomplete#Search_Page_Replacement) [code] var data = [ {text:'Link A', url:'/page1'}, {text:'Link B', url: '/ page2'} ]; $("...").autocomplete(data, { formatItem: function(item) { return item.text; } }).result(function(event, item) { location.href = item.url; }); [/code] = [code] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/demo/main.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.bgiframe.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/lib/jquery.dimensions.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/ plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ var data = [ {text:'Link A', url:'http://www.jquery.com/'}, {text:'Link B', url: 'http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/ Autocomplete#Search_Page_Replacement'} ]; $("#example").autocomplete(data); </script> </head> <body> API Reference: <input id="example" /> (try "C" or "E") </body> </html> [/code] but when i type "link" or "jquery" nothing turns up