This jQuery plugin can be attached to text input fields for autocompletion, using mouse and keyboard for selection. It can handle either a local source (e.g. an array of objects) or a remote resource (e.g. by polling an AJAX path which delivers JSON/XML data asynchronously).
- jQuery 1.4+
- A modern desktop web browser or Internet Explorer 7+
Actually, Better Autocomplete probably works fine for many mobile device web browsers as well, but for now they are not supported.
Try the demonstration and browse the documentation.
The most powerful ability of this plugin, compared to others, is that it is very flexible. There are settings and callbacks for almost every aspect of the plugin. The callbacks can be overridden easily by you to customize the behavior. Read documentation for details.
If there is one callback that will do you more good than anyone else, it is the select callback. For sample implementations, check examples directory.
It works perfectly fine to use the contents of the src directory as is, but it is also possible to generate a minified version of the JavaScript file (using Google Closure Compiler).
To generate minified code you need curl in your PATH and an internet
connection.
To generate documentation you need to download and configure
JsDoc Toolkit so
that you have jsrun.sh in your PATH.
Then just run ./make in the Better Autocomplete root directory.
This will create the directories build and docs.
Better Autocomplete, Copyright 2011, Didrik Nordström
Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.