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 json that looks to be in order, but I am getting no suggestions showing up.

Here are the js libraries I am including:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.min.js"></script>

 <link href="/Content/jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and here is the javascript and the form tags:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {

        $("#organization").autocomplete({
            source: function (request, response) {
                $.ajax({
                    url: '/Organization/OrganizationLookup',
                    dataType: "json",
                    data: {
                        limit: 12,
                        q: request.term
                    }
                })
            },
            minLength: 2
        });
    });
</script> 

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

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

[
  {
    "id":"Sector A",
    "value":"Sector A"
  },
  {
    "id":"Sector B",
    "value":"Sector B"
  },
  {
    "id":"Sector C",
    "value":"Sector C"
  }
]

id and value seem to be the default naming that autocomplete is looking for.

But I get no joy at all. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Not the issue here — you should put css before javascript. Always.

You are not doing anything with the return value. You need to use a callback function to take that data and do something with it. (The “success:” parameter, I believe).