Question

I am trying to build a SharePoint 2007 web part in Visual Studio.
This web part should search a sharepoint list and display the results.

What I want to accomplish is to display the results as soon as the user stops typing, so no clicking button involved.

Probably, a combination of text_changed event and onkeydown javascript?

Any thought would be great.

This sharepoint site is “Ajax-enabled”, btw.

Thanks

Answer 1

I would suggest using jquery and keyup:

$("input#txtid").keyup(function () {
                if (this.value.length < 8)
                    return false;

                $.get("ServiceUrl", { arg: this.value }, function (result) { $("#output").html(result); });

            });