Question

How to create an html look up field. So, I want to achieve

1. an html input field, with an icon/button next to it
2. when user click on it, a pop-up window displays with a search form (I assume this can be created beforehand and hide using javascript)
3. user apply search, and data is displayed in the same (pop-up) window
4. when user select a value and apply ok, the field value is copied to the original input filed, and pop-up window closes.

Any sample code? Is there any simple way without using any java script library? or any simple plugin for jquery.

thanks.

Answer 1

It would be possible, but very unwise to do this without any libraries or plug-ins.

I strongly recommend jQuery UI’s Dialog widget. It’s very simple, well documented and easy to use.

You will probably be interested specifically in how to use the Dialog to display a form. Click the View Source link on that page to see all of the mark-up and code required to achieve that effect.