Questions tagged [autocomplete]

Autocomplete is a UI feature provided by applications, where the program predicts a word or phrase that the user wants to type without the user actually typing it completely.

Autocomplete is a user interface feature provided by applications, where the program predicts a word or phrase that the user wants to type without the user actually typing it completely.

It is provided by many web browsers, email programs, search engine interfaces, source code editors, database query tools, word processors, and command line interpreters.

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Google's predictive text as you type code example - w/o auto suggest dropdown menu

Google's new predictive text predicts the search "as you type" in the box by showing the next characters in light gray font. Does anyone know of any code that does this? I am aware of the typical suggest drop down menus but I am looking for example…
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jQuery UI Autocomplete Formatting for Multiple Elements

I have the jQuery UI Autocomplete setup to my liking and working perfectly, but there is one fatal flaw. In my autocomplete I use a custom display like this example. I have something very similar built but with on exception... The only difference…
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how to set id in jquery ui autocomplete source event

I wanted to use the auto complete widget to allow someone to select an employee by typing in an employee name into the text box, but I want the form to post the ID of the employee, not the employee name.I provided the data ie the employee names as…
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Perform a facet search query with Algolia autocomplete

My index objects has a city field and I'd like to retrieve these with autocomplete, but documentation seems missing about how to perform a query (only basic search documentation is available), I found a prototype…
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Why do UTF-8 characters not work in jquery textcomplete?

I am using the autocompleter jquery-textcomplete in my web app. It's working fine for English and Russian letters. But it is not working for certain special letters such as "ҷ". Code: $('.form-control').textcomplete([{ words: ['тоҷик',…
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jQuery-UI autocomplete does not work on Bootstrap 4 modal

I'm stucked with an issue in bootstrap 4 modal, I'm trying to use jQuery-UI's autocomplete function on an input but it doesn't work, I've tried: .ui-front { z-index:1001 !important; } The function works fine without modal, but when I put it…
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jQuery autocomplete - need to initiate only when a special character is typed

I'm sure you guys have seen this excellent plugin: http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/autosuggest-jquery-plugin I checked it out and could not find an option to initiate the autosuggest plugin only when a specific character is typed. In this case I…
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Materialize autocomplete ajax

I'm using the materialize autocomplete plugin to create multiple tags input with autocomplete. Plugin works fine, yet only with data passed as an array defined in advance. If data is passed from ajax call, plugin does not show dropdown with options…
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Customizing filename completion in Ex-mode

Is there a way I can customize how vim does filename completion when I'm in ex-mode (on the : line)? I never want to tab-complete to some filetypes (*.o, *.hi), and I'd rather they not pop up first.
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Empty password input value on autocomplete (React.js)

After my login form is autocompleted by the browser, the queried password input's value is empty. After I click into the password field, the value gets magically available, also there are many events fired by the browser that don't make sense. (The…
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Django Autocomplete Light List Object has no Attribute Queryset

Please look at my edits at the end of my code as well. I'm attempting to implement django-autocomplete-light (dal 3.2.10) for a single field. Following the tutorial, I turn up this error: 'list' object has no attribute 'queryset'. I have seen this…
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Komodo IDE 6's slow autocomplete problems with Javascript

I've been trying out Komodo IDE 6 for the last few days. I've always liked Komodo but I'm starting to get annoyed by something: The autocomplete is way too slow/buggy. Certain variables just won't give any autocomplete tips. Sometimes you have to…
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jQuery Autocomplete Plugin that triggers after token

I'm building an application, and would like to do an autocomplete within a textarea, much like how Twitter/Facebook does theirs with the @[name]. However, I would like to it trigger when I enter [TID:x], where x is an integer of any length. It…
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Can I make the dropdown visible after entering one character in react-select?

I'm using react-select React component to display an autocomplete input field. On focusing the react-select component input field, it will display all the options available which I don't want since the length of the data-set is in thousands. I want…
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How to trigger autocomplete search event

I have jQuery autocomplete setup on an input box. It is working fine. However, I want to have a button that when clicked will trigger autocomplete as though the user type some text in the input. I would pass a specific string. Any ideas on how I…
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