Question

I’m an amateur programmer so go easy on me. I am trying to call getJson only once to pull an array, then have jquery autocomplete use that as a source. It seems like this code is never calling the handler.

<script>   

$(function () {
        var availableTags[];
        $.getJSON("./Handler.ashx", function(data) {
            availableTags = data;
        });

        $("#TextBox3").autocomplete({
            source: availableTags
        });
    });
</script>

the code below works but I do not want js to call the handler every time .

<script>        
$(function () {
        $("#TextBox3").autocomplete({
            source: "./Handler.ashx",
            minLength: 3,
            select: function (event, ui) {
                $(this).val(ui.item.value);
            }
        });
    });

</script>

Answer 1

Try something like this:

<script>   

$(function () {
        $.getJSON("./Handler.ashx", function(data) {
            $("#TextBox3").autocomplete({
                source: data
            });
        });           
    });
</script>