Question

Don’t know if it matters, but the msg.d is about 300 rows long. I get properly formatted Json data when I alert msg.d.

$("#supplierSelect").autocomplete({
    source: function( request, response ) {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "SupplierAdmin.aspx/PopulateSupplierSelectDropDownList",
            data: "{}",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",
            success: function (msg) {
                response( $.map( msg.d, function( item ) {
                    return {
                        label: item.title,
                        value: item.turninId
                    }
                }));
            }
        });
    }
}).fadeIn();

Lots of thanks if you can tell me how to only fadeIn when success.

Edit: The “properly formatted Json data” actually has quotes around the label and value, and the ordering is switched. Checking now to see if it makes a difference. Sorry for incomplete info.

Edit2: I went with response( $($.parseJSON(msg.d)).map( function()… instead, and now when I type anything, the autocomplete drops down the whole list of names and selecting one puts the value in the box. Am I right to assume this isn’t correct functionality?

Answer 1

Needed to add parseJSON to the map.