Is there more than one jQuery Autocomplete widget?
- by Cheeso
I thought there was only one - included in jQuery UI and documented here.
I know there are third-party autocomplete widgets that plug-in to jQuery, like the one from devbridge. But I would describe that as an autocomplete widget for jQuery, rather than the jQuery autocomplete widget.
But on Stackoverflow, I see questions asking about an autocomplete widget that does not use the syntax described in the jQuery UI documentation. For example:
jquery.autocomplete.js - how does autocomplete work?
Jquery AutoComplete Plugin calling
Help with jquery autocomplete and json response
The jQuery UI syntax looks like this:
$("#input1").autocomplete({
source: function(req, responseFn) {
...
},
select: function(value, data){
...
}
});
Whereas some of those other questions hae a syntax like this:
$("#city").autocomplete("CUList.asmx/GetCUList", {
dataType: 'jsonp',
parse: function(data)
{
var rows = new Array();
for(var i=0; i<data.length; i++){
rows[i] = { data:data[i], value:data[i].CUName, result:data[i].CUName };
}
return rows;
},
formatItem: function(row, i, n) {
return row.CUName + ', ' + row.CUCity;
},
max: 50
});
What's the explanation for the discrepancy? People ask about "jquery autocomplete" without specifying which one. With no direction, shouldn't I assume THE jquery UI autocomplete?
