Question

I am using autocomplete of jquery (not jquery ui autocomplete. I am using it’s ancestor). Everything works fine except the autosuggest is only shown when you type something in textbox. My requirements are a bit different. By default I want to show all available suggestions to user. How can I do that?

This is the sample code:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#CityAjax").autocomplete(
        "autocomplete_ajax.cfm",
        {
            delay:10,
            minChars:2,
            matchSubset:1,
            matchContains:1,
            cacheLength:10,
            onItemSelect:selectItem,
            onFindValue:findValue,
            formatItem:formatItem,
            autoFill:true
        }
    );
});

Answer 1

Change minChars from 2 to 0. like this

$("#CityAjax").autocomplete(
    "autocomplete_ajax.cfm",
    {
        delay:10,
        minChars:0,
        matchSubset:1,
        matchContains:1,
        cacheLength:10,
        onItemSelect:selectItem,
        onFindValue:findValue,
        formatItem:formatItem,
        autoFill:true
    }
);