Question

I have been trying to get a simple example of the jquery-ui autocomplete to work. I have a controller setup to handle the query, and it returns the string that looks to be in order, but I am getting no suggestions showing up.

Here are the libraries I am including on that page

<link href="/Content/css/jquery-ui-1.8.12.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/Content/css/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/Content/css/Stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/Content/css/coupon1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/Content/Slider/slidder.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />  

<script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/el7r_notify.min.jq.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/ZeroClipboard.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.spellcheck.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Content/Slider/jquery.jcarousel.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Content/Slider/jquery-func.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/Coupon.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and here is the javascript and the form tags:

 $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#tags").autocomplete({
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.ajax({
                    url: '/Home/GetCompanyNames',
                    success: function (msg) {
                        response($.map(msg));
                    }

                });
            }
        });
    });



    <div class="ui-widget"> 
  <label for="tags">tags: </label> 
   <input id="tags" /> 
</div> 

I get back a string response that looks reasonable from my controller:

“LTJRKK,
KTOYQQ,
GDADKT,
PVFOQT,
PVFOQT,
YNKYVS,
YNKYVS,
DQBOVU,
DQBOVU
“

this string seem to be the default naming that autocomplete is looking for.

But I get no joy at all. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Your call to $.map is incorrect. You are not supplying the callback function to $.map, which is probably causing the problem.

In this case, you do not need to use $.map at all since your action returns data in the correct format. The following should work fine:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#tags").autocomplete({
        source: '/Home/GetCompanyNames'
    });
});