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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:18:57+00:00

I am trying to make an autocomplete widget that will display the name and

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I am trying to make an autocomplete widget that will display the name and a short description of the matched item.

For example, if I type “America” it will show “North America – The northern subcontinent of the Americas.” and “South America – The southern subcontinent of the Americas.”

I have successfully made it so my database will return the appropriate JSON response with id,value (name of the item, eg. North America, and desc (short description eg. ‘The northern subcontinent…’), I just need help to format the returned results as

<li><strong>value<strong><br><p>desc</p></li>

instead of just

<li>value</li>

Thanks a lot in advance.

P.S. I have been trying to look for an answer on Stack Overflow, but the answers I’ve found involve formatResult and other methods that are no longer supported.

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#custom-data – is the custom data example on the jquery ui site what you’re trying to achieve?

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