jQuery Select Autocomplete lets you turn an HTML <select>
tag into an auto-complete text input box and hides the select node in the DOM. When a user types in the text input box, all matching options from the select list will show up in the auto-complete list and when one option is selected, the select control's selected item is set to the item picked from the auto-complete list. This means that you don't have to change your processing code at all; just look for the select list`s value the same way you already were.
Assuming you have one or more select lists with a class of "autocomplete", just write:
$(select.autocomplete).select_autocomplete();
See index.html
for a working example.
License is MIT. See LICENSE file.
- figure out if there's a way to automagically manage the dependency on jquery.autocomplete