Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply. i tried:
return row.employees[0]; to see if it would give me back the first item, in this case, "Joe". I get the error "row.employees is undefined". So I tried: return row.employees; which gave me the entire: "{"field1":null,"field2":null,"field3":null,"field4":null,"employees": ["Joe","David"]}" again. Nonetheless, you said I should use something like: function formatItem(row, i, count, term) { // 'term' is the search term, use it :-) .... }; I'm such a newbie with jQuery I don't even know where to start :$