Question

I am using Jquery autocomplete with local array of size ~5000, every word is ~10 chars.
I am initializing the object like this:

.autocomplete({matchContains: true, minLength: 3, delay: 700, source: array1, max: 10, highlight: true })

The problem is, that when I start to type, it takes a lot of time (sometime crashes the browser) until the result is displayed.

What can I do?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use AJAX to fetch the array instead of putting it into the HTML, increase the delay and the required minLength before querying the server in order to reduce the matches.