Thanks Stephen (MorningZ). I really appreciate it.

Best
Sam


On Dec 24, 8:29 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Super quick proof of concept
>
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/96632/
>
> On Dec 24, 10:03 am, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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

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