Question

how can I make a text box or any input form parse html? Im building a message section, and In the “To” input box I am trying to design an automatic contact inserter type function, which will use a jquery keyup function to send user data to a php script, and it will return the appropriate contact (or a list of contacts below which will load the appropriate one when the user clicks on it) in a small div in the box(which can be styled). I did a horrible job of phrasing what I was trying to do, so if you dont understand (im amazed if you do) overall my questions is how to make a textbox/input form parse html?

Answer 1

i think you should read, .keyup() event of the jquery will help you the detect the user input, the basic structure here it is:

$('#id').keyup(function(){
var data = $(this).val();

//now you use ajax request
$.ajax({
  url: 'yourphpfile.php',
  data: 'data=' + data,
  success: function(callback){}
});
});

this is just a basic example for more you should go to the jquery.com