What you ask is not going to be possible.... first and foremost you are overlooking the fact that you are going to lose focus (and therefore your selection and cursor position) when you click on the autocomplete's <div> of available selections
do something like Jorn suggests, and with some well placed and well used CSS you can make it "appear" as one big textarea, even though it would be <div>, <input> and <textarea> On Dec 24, 9:54 am, Sam Unplugged <guptasamee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This does make sense. > > However, can you tell me if its possible to autofire jQuery > autocomplete dropdown and similarly to prevent autocomplete to show. > > I can use such a thingy to show autocomplete dropdown when user has > typed 'Dear '. And after that I will not show autocomplete. > > Please tell me how this can this be done? > > Best > Sam > > On Dec 24, 6:48 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > I don't know of any dropin solution for that. I can only recommend to > > rethink your approach, eg. make the "Dear " static in front of the > > textarea and a seperate input inbetween. > > > Jörn > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Sam Unplugged <guptasamee...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there an example of partial autocomplete? By 'partial' I mean, only > > > a part of textarea gets suggestions. > > > > Users in my project are supposed to start a message in a textarea with > > > 'Dear <UserName>' > > > > I want to make this <UserName> part either clickable like in Office > > > documents custom fields, and when a user is editing this part I want > > > to show a list of options (usernames from a database). > > > > I can work out the backend, but I have no clue where to begin to make > > > such a textarea. Please help. > > > > Thanks a ton. > > > > Sam
