Check out the "result" method the autocomplete makes available:
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete/result#handler
The "data" parameter represents the raw data array.
OR, you may need to set up the "formatResult" parameter when
initializing the autocomplete (or via the setOptions() method).
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete/autocomplete#url_or_dataoptions
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete
I believe the formatResult method would probably be what you are looking
for, though it's been a while since I used autocomplete and don't fully
understand your app.. :)
Hope that helps.
Shawn
Adam wrote:
Ok, that's a great article but not exactly what I need. I don't need
to modify the results of the select (yet) but I need to modify the
output of the results: a mulit-dimensional array that would need to be
looped and shown. It might require a whole script entirely, but
there's just too much good stuff in Jorn's plugin that I could never
do on my own.
On Jun 17, 2:59 pm, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which autocomplete are you using? Which version?
Not meaning to do a shameless plug, but I wrote a blog article that
covered using database IDs with Jorn's autocomplete.
http://grover.open2space.com/node/190
This was back in December, so might be a little dated. But I believe
what you are trying to do seems relatively similar. Perhaps that might
help?
Shawn
Adam wrote:
Tried to post this question once before but didn't seem to work...
I'm needing to get a multi-dim JSON array to work for my autocomplete,
in an effort to mimic the Spotlight design.
My JSON currently looks like this:
[
{"key":"names", "values":[ bunch of values]},
{"key":"emails","values": [ bunch of email values ]}
]
I am wanting to put into an HTML structure like this:
<dl>
<dt>Names</dt>
<dd><a href="#">name</dd>
<dd><a href="#">name</dd>
<dt>Emails</dt>
<dd><a href="#">email</dd>
<dd><a href="#">email</dd>
</dl>
Basically, I want my JS to loop through the JSON array and spit out
the key into a <dt> tag, then each item into a <dd>. Easier said than
done.
Can anyone give me some direction? I've got it as far as listing all
the names and emails in <dd>'s, but no <dt>'s are happening...
Here is my adapted autocomplete.js code:
function parse(data) {
var parsed = [];
$(data).each( function() {
var rows = this.values;
for (var i=0; i < rows.length; i++) {
var row = rows[i];
if (row) {
row = row.split("|");
parsed[parsed.length] = {
data: row,
value: row[0],
result: options.formatResult &&
options.formatResult(row,
row[0]) || row[0]
};
}
}
});
return parsed;
};
Thanks.
