Comments on: Autocompletion with Scriptaculous and Ajax.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:29:22 +0000

What should the response of the server script look like?

By: ad2sound

ad2sound — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:11:54 +0000

Is it working with Classic ASP ? If yes can you help me with an example to write correct asp Query ?

Thanks in Advanced

By: Neenz

Neenz — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:20:21 +0000

Thanks for the code.

Can someone please tell me how the format of server.php.
Am using a WebFOCUS program at my back end to get data from the data base and its returning a string – apple,bat,cat,…..
Will this work, or does it need a specific format????

By: freddy

freddy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:10:32 +0000

to fix arrow keys not working

add this line into autocomplete.php

li.selected { background: #FCC;}

it is missing in the demo files this is where to place the missing code

body {font-family: verdana; arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }
#search, ul { padding: 3px; width: 150px; border: 1px solid #999; font-family: verdana; arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;}
ul { list-style-type: none; font-family: verdana; arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 5px 0 0 0}
li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; cursor: default; color: red;}
li:hover { background: #ffc; }
li.selected { background: #FCC;}

By: Cinto

Cinto — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:05:01 +0000

In order for the up/down arrow to work, you need to add in this line inside the css style:

li.selected { background: #FCC;}

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:36:25 +0000

This script is exactly what I was looking for, however like the others who have commented before me, the arrow keys do not work to select the item. They work in the demo above however. I tried downloading the code and putting it on my web server unmodified (Except for the DB parameters in server.php) and the arrow keys also do not work there.

Can someone please post the solution to enabling the selection of the item in the ‘hint’ div with arrow keys?

Thanks,
-Jeremy

By: joet

joet — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:34:01 +0000

Is there any way to clip out what’s absolutely necessary from prototype.js? It’s 138k. That’s a total deal breaker for most web sites. If someone hits your site from a mobile phone or dial-up and everything is kaput.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:36:57 +0000

I also have the problem of arrow keys not working. (Win, IE8 & FF).

Otherwise, Thank you for the script, its great!

PS. showing error messages could help implementing..

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:27:29 +0000

Has anyone had any trouble with up/down arrow keys not working with the hint?

Really nice writeup, thanks for posting.

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