On 4/16/09 2:50 PM, "Lance A. Brown" <la...@bearcircle.net> wrote:
> I'm working on adding autocomplete to a form which describes a
> discussion paper. Each paper can have multiple authors and I want to
> provide autocomplete on the author names. I'm new to jQuery so this
> code is kind of rough.
>
> My java script is:
>
> // Begin
> function parse_search(data) {
> var result = [];
> for (var i = 0; i < data.names.length; i++) {
> result[i] = { data: data.names[i].name,
> value: data.names[i].id,
> result: data.names[i].name
> };
> }
> return result;
> }
>
> function format_item(row, i, max) {
> return row;
> }
>
> function set_author_autocomplete()
> {
> var searchurl = $("#authsearch_url").attr("href");
>
> $(".author_name").each(function (i) {
> $(this).autocomplete(searchurl, {
> dataType: 'json',
> parse: parse_search,
what autocomplete plugin are you using? this one does not have a documented
"parse" option:
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Autocomplete/autocomplete#url_or_dataoptions
> formatItem: format_item
> }
> )
> }
> );
> }
>
>
>
> $(document).ready(set_author_autocomplete);
> //End
two more points, though i don't know if they make any odds:
it seems to be more conventional jq style (see
http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery) to put all
your jq script inside a block like this:
$(document).ready(function() { });
and is there a reason to prefer:
$(".author_name").each(function (i) { $(this).autocomplete(); });
over
$(".author_name").autocomplete();
?
