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<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - Remote datasource</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css">
<script src="../../jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script>
<script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script>
<script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.position.js"></script>
<script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../demos.css">
<style>
.ui-autocomplete-loading { background: white url('images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif') right center no-repeat; }
</style>
<script>
$(function() {
function log( message ) {
$( "<div/>" ).text( message ).prependTo( "#log" );
$( "#log" ).attr( "scrollTop", 0 );
}
$( "#birds" ).autocomplete({
source: "search.php",
minLength: 2,
select: function( event, ui ) {
log( ui.item ?
"Selected: " + ui.item.value + " aka " + ui.item.id :
"Nothing selected, input was " + this.value );
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="demo">
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="birds">Birds: </label>
<input id="birds" />
</div>
<div class="ui-widget" style="margin-top:2em; font-family:Arial">
Result:
<div id="log" style="height: 200px; width: 300px; overflow: auto;" class="ui-widget-content"></div>
</div>
</div><!-- End demo -->
<div class="demo-description">
<p>The Autocomplete widgets provides suggestions while you type into the field. Here the suggestions are bird names, displayed when at least two characters are entered into the field.</p>
<p>The datasource is a server-side script which returns JSON data, specified via a simple URL for the source-option. In addition, the minLength-option is set to 2 to avoid queries that would return too many results and the select-event is used to display some feedback.</p>
</div><!-- End demo-description -->
</body>
</html>