Question

I attended a video that describes how to implement a autocomplete in input. in the end I tested in firefox and chrome and it works well, except in internet explorer: here is the code below :

jquery :

function getSuggestions(value){
        if(value!=''){  
                $.get('suggest.php', {requestKword:value}, function (data){
                            $('#suggestions').show();
                            $('#suggestions').html(data);
                            doCSS();
                    });
        }
        else{
            removeSuggestions();
        }
}
function removeSuggestions(){
    $("#suggestions").html("");
    undoCSS();
}   
function fill(thisValue) {
    $('#ii').val(thisValue);
    setTimeout("$('#suggestions').hide();", 200);
}
function doCSS(){
$("#suggestions").css({
    'border' : 'solid',
    'border-width':'1px',
    'position': 'relative'
    });
}
function undoCSS(){
$("#suggestions").css({
    'border' : '',
    'border-width':''
    });
}
function addText(value){
        $("#ii").val(value);
}

css :

#suggestions{
text-align:left;
padding-left:5px;
font-size:14px;
}
#link:hover{ background-color:#f0f0f0; cursor:default;}

html :

<form action="/" method="get" id="set" name="set">
<input id="ii" type="text" name="q" size="96px"  value=""  onblur="fill();"  onkeyup="getSuggestions(this.value)"  /><br />
<div id="suggestions"></div>
</form>

mysql :
suggest.php

mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '');
mysql_select_db('keywords') or die (mysql_error());
$keyword=mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['requestKword']);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `table`.`keys` where `column` like '$keyword%' LIMIT 0 , 10") or die (mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    echo '<div id="link" onclick="addText(\''.$row['keyword'].'\')" ">'.$row['keyword'].'</div>';
}

Answer 1

You may want to consider jQuery autocomplete plugin here: http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/. It has nice working demo; tips ….