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I am trying to create a JQuery Autocomplete box where the words being suggested for autcomplete are links (similar to what happens on Facebook or Quora).
Basically, I want the autocomplete results to drop down and I want people to be able to click on them and be navigated to a different page. Here is the code I am currently using
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
source: ["Spencer Kline", "Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test Test", "php", "coldfusion", "javascript", "asp", "ruby"]
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body style="font-size:62.5%;">
<input id="autocomplete" />
</body>
</html>
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This is simple. Change your source to an array of objects, such as:
var source = [ { value: "www.foo.com",
label: "Spencer Kline"
},
{ value: "www.example.com",
label: "James Bond"
},
...
];
The just use the select method to redirect to the 'value', e.g.:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("input#autocomplete").autocomplete({
source: source,
select: function( event, ui ) {
window.location.href = ui.item.value;
}
});
});
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