Autocomplete dropdown using asp.net mvc

Question

I have a dropdown in my CreateDocumentTemplate ciew
<%=Html.DropDownList("Part", (SelectList)ViewData["Part"])%>
which is populated from database. I want to this dropdown to be autocomplete. How can I acoomplish this?

Answer 1

Use for example jQueryUI (even comes packaged with MVC 3)

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#combobox