Question

I m looking for an autocomplete plugin that makes it easy to categorize search results. If that s unclear, take a look at Apple.com s search bar (top right).

I know that script.aculo.us autocomplete widget provides similar functionality, by allowing you to wrap text in a [span class="informal"]. Every class="informal" element is not included in keyboard navigation.

Since I m not too thrilled about including two different frameworks in this project, I d love it if someone could tell me how I d go forward in modifying one of the many autocomplete-plugins for jQuery to mimic this functionality.

Thanks, looking forward to seeing your answers!

Answer 1

I suggest you try jQuery autocomplete. With that, you are able to format the result in various ways. For example, the output of your function should look like "url|linkname|third var" so you are able to format the result yourself.

  function formatItem(row) {
    if (row[2] == 1)      
    {
      return (<strong>id: " + row[1] + "</strong>)";
    }
    else
    {
      return  <a href=" +row[0]+ " > +row[1]+ </a> ;
    }
  }

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