I have read several articles/questions/forums discussing the best auto-complete plugin for jQuery. After trying several good ones, I've realized a flaw in most.
If you are looking up countries and type 'In', a couple of countries show up. If you continue typing I-n-d-i-a, this results in 5 AJAX calls (see http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/6f1bcd69e1.png) its quite natural that India is a subset of In, so why call again? We need to simply filter the retrieved list client-side. Anyone knows about such an implementation?
What is the status of the Jquery Autocomplete feature? I read at StackOverflow that it is no longer available with Jquery; but the Jquery website has a 'New' mark besides the link to Autocomplete.
Thanks
The point you write about in 1. could be because :
In
' shoudl return a lot of resultsIn
" is not known, on the client-sideInd
" without another Ajax request.A half-solution that's often used is to not send an Ajax request immediatly after a keypress, but only 100 or 200 milliseconds after.
This way, if the user types "Indi
" fast, and waits before typing anything else, the will only be 1 Ajax request, for "Indi
" (and none for "In
", "Ind
")
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