Question

I’m looking for a jQuery plugin (or some other library that’ll work with jquery) that will do autocomplete-type behavior. A couple features I’m looking for

1. support text/id paired data, where the text is displayed in the “dropdown” and textbox, but an ID is available to be submitted with the form.
2. ID’s are not required to be submitted to the server – that is, items not in the list could be entered into the textbox
3. prefereably the ability to style the markup of items in the list

This http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/autosuggest-jquery-plugin/ is a pretty good match, but seems to have a couple bugs. The jQuery UI implementation seems to be missing at least the first.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but it’s what I use, Lightweight and easy to style too!

http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/