Yes, a progressive enhancement from a select to an autocomplete is
definitely planned. Its not hard to do anyway: Create a text input,
append it before or after the select, hide the select, initialize the
input with autocomplete and pass the options as the autocomplete data.
Add a button image that indicates the field being equivalent to a
select.
Something like this:
$("select").each(function() {
var data = $(this).hide().find("option").map(function() {
return $(this).text();
});
$("<input/>").insertAfter(this).autocomplete(data, {mustMatch: true});
});
Jörn
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Enrique Meléndez Estrada
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi Jörn,
> I see that your great plugin, autocomplete, can also behave like a combobox
> (a subset of...), in the sense that the result must match one of the
> possible values (practically, identical to a <select><options> html tags),
> correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> So, It would be veeeeery interesting to have, not only input and textarea,
> but selects, as well, autocompleteable, and in this last option, to have
> default behaviour of a combobox (must match, contains, local (obviously),
> etc...). All to be more "accessible": if no autocomplete/combobox plugin,
> you find your normal SELECT. And also, without the need of a special format
> for the data (the data is the proper <option> tags).
>
> is this in your plans for a next release? does this make any sense to you?
> perhaps a "converter" from select/option to input/your data format in order
> to use the autocomplete? (this last case is very expensive if you have
> thousands of options...)
>
> thanx a lot,
>
> --
> Enrique Meléndez Estrada (2367)
> Servicios Informáticos
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>
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