I am mostly a backend developer. And very new to javascript. So pardon my dumb question, but is there a way to trigger autocomplete when the user types ‘@’ in a textfield. Like how it does in twitter.
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I am mostly a backend developer. And very new to javascript. So pardon my dumb question, but is there a way to trigger autocomplete when the user types ‘@’ in a textfield. Like how it does in twitter.
Got two answers for you:
I think this blog post has what you need:
Triggered @mention Autocomplete like Facebook, Twitter and Google+
Github repo: https://github.com/Hawkers/triggeredAutocomplete
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