Question

I am looking for an auto complete jQuery plug which support both tag (like stackoverflow’s) and picture (like facebook’s search). Any recommendations?

Answer 1

jQuery UI has autocomplete which is easy to use.

You pass it an array of possible values (either from the server or client side) and the autocomplete takes it from there.

Here is an example that may help show you how to use custom data.

Excerpt from jQuery UI

    $(function() {
        var availableTags = [
            "ActionScript", "AppleScript",
            "Asp", "BASIC",
            "C", "C++",
            "Clojure", "COBOL",
            "ColdFusion", "Erlang",
            "Fortran", "Groovy",
            "Haskell", "Java",
            "JavaScript", "Lisp",
            "Perl", "PHP",
            "Python", "Ruby",
            "Scala", "Scheme"
        ];
        $( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
            source: availableTags
        });
    });

And the html:

<div class="ui-widget">
    <label for="tags">Tags: </label>
    <input id="tags">
</div>