Category: Autocomplete

jQuery Auto Suggest Plugin

on May 2, 2012 in Autocomplete, Development

Auto Suggest is a lightweight (6kb minified) jQuery auto-complete plugin with lots of features.

The plugin features over 25 options and callbacks and is styled using only css which makes it one of the most customisable auto-complete plugins available.

Data can be created as an object or loaded via ajax from a URL which is processed server side.

Keyboard support to make a new selection is also provided in the latest version.

jQuery Auto Suggest Plugin

Facebook / Twitter Style Mentions Input – jQuery Plugin

on February 25, 2012 in Autocomplete, Development, Widget

Mentions Input is an auto-complete form input jQuery plugin that recreates the @mention used in Twitter and Facebook.

Unlike a traditional auto-complete widget, it is triggered with a character such as @ – but this can be changed in the configuration options.

The data store can be local or it can be retrieved remotely with AJAX. An image such as an avatar can also be returned and displayed in the drop-down results.

The plugin has a number of options and callbacks which makes it an extremely useful UI component.

It wont work in legacy browsers such as IE6 & IE7 without a poly-fill as it requires the HTML 5 input event but this is also included.

Facebook / Twitter Style Mentions Input - jQuery Plugin

TextExt – jQuery Plugin

on January 22, 2012 in Autocomplete, Development, Tag

TextExt is a jQuery plugin that converts an ordinary HTML text area or input field into a tag input with several modular features such as:

  • Tags
  • Autocomplete
  • AJAX loading
  • Place holder text

Each of these features are built as extensions to the plugin to keep the source code to a minimum.

Included in it’s core it also features an item manager that makes it easy to convert data from a string to whatever data type you are using in the tags, filter, autocomplete or suggestions plugins.

It has a comprehensive API documentation and full featured working examples of each extension or combination of extensions.

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